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27 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
A nontrivial 15% of Americans agree with the QAnon allegation “the government, media, & financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation,” while 82% Americans disagree prri.org/research/qanon…
Similarly, one in five Americans (20%) agree with the statement “There is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders,” while a majority (77%) disagree.
Fifteen percent of Americans agree that “Because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country,” while the vast majority (85%) disagree.
This last finding is one that is concerning as this is a concept that is found in other violent extremists movements beyond QAnon.

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Marc-André Argentino Profile picture
27 May
I wonder if anyone @YouTube would be willing to explaing how this QAnon and JFK jr channel is verified?
I'm just wondering if this is the quality content I need to produce to get a blue check on YouTube asking for @dappergander who wants to expand his counter QAnon platform
I mean their verified YouTube leads to their website which leads to their telegram channel. Since everyone was deplatformed you need to start backwards to know what type of actors use your platform to monitor their propaganda.
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27 May
The entire point of Watkins new project is a rebrand of QAnon, there are to many powerful voices that are taking over the QAnon space that are not OG influencers or Watkins. Watkins also knows there are only so many recounts he can "monitor" before people loose interest.
People like Powell, Wood, Flynn and GhostEzra have taken a more influencer role in QAnon spaces that some of the OH influencers and this pisses them off and they cannot compete with the size of their audiences.
This will probably a project that Sather and IET jump on with Watkins so that they can controll the narrative an audience. It's about power, and this specific narrative will appeal to a specific subgroup of QAnon and the conspiracy theory space.
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26 May
.@jaredlholt buddy I love you but I have a snall bone to pick with you about this latest report of yours. Its good BUUUUT "QAnon’s hallmark catchphrases evaporating from the mainstream internet" link.medium.com/wlCazaZHzgb
From a methodological perspective what was measured I don't think is too much of a problem however I think it is important to take note that the data sources that were used are not complete. The report does acknowledge that is not using data from telegram however that is a flaw.
Telegram plays an important role in the QAnon ecosystem, not only in the US but transnationally currently there are over 600 qanon telegram channels. The volume of content there might challenge the finding that qanon is not able to Outpost it's counterparts on mainstream media.
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26 May
1/ For those who missed my @GNET_research panel I'm going to share my slides here with some of my comments on how violent extremist organizations have leveraged the COVID-19 pandemic.
2/ early analysis in 2020 raised two points, the COVID-19 health restrictions would likely have an impact on offline recruitment from VEOs, while simultaneously boosting their efforts at recruiting online.
3/ Was online recruitment successful is something that is difficult to answer and I have yet to find any convincing findings about this as we cannot talk about recruitment in the traditional sense.
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26 May
The GhostEzra channel, which has 335k members, whas gone from Antisemitic to holocaust denialism in less than a week. It is also networking the QAnon adherents in that channel to more extre groups on Telegram. It has become a hub for radicalization
What is important is that there is no channel on terrogram, no nazi channel, no white supremacist channel that has tens of thousands of members, nevermind 335k. GhostEzra (and a few others) are introducing violent extremist ideologies to a large pool of extremists.
This could still be called an emerging trend, there was always antisemitism, or elements of in QAnon, but the type of content being shared in the GhostEzra channel is not the norm and has taken very extreme turns
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10 May
1/ This users post is a terrifyingly good example of someone who has truly radicalized into QAnon. lets take a quick look at the signs of what he describes as "growing spiritually" and detaching from mainstream society.
2/ First, the description of his radicalization process is very similar to a religious conversion in this case. From his post it is not only about being pilled as he's "been awake for 10 years". QAnon has given him a new religious experience in a way.
3/ Some key signs of what he is describing might be something you'd notice if someone you know if going a little too far down the rabbit hole. No longer interested in topics that they were passionate about. In this case the user is no longer into college football as he was before
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