If I just heard this correctly, someone asked Flynn why what happened in Myanmar hasn't happened here (in the US) and Flynn said it should.... Now that is Flynn a former national security advisor saying a military coup should take place in the US.
So just relistened to the bit from the QAnon Conference stream and Flynn just said a military coup should happen in the US... Now this is something that is part of QAnon (the military liberating the nation from the Deep State Cabal). But Flynn is not an anonymous chan poster.
It's important to not that QAnon have generally been for what is happening I Myanmar. Military coups for adherents are a legitimate way to destroy democratic institutions. But the fact that individuals like Flynn is advocating for this vs ragtag QAnon influencers hits differently
This is an anti-establishment desire being espoused by an individual who had political power and still has political clout and connections, pushing the apocalyptic objective of an extremist movement
Here is the video clip of the statement that a military coup should happen in the US followed by massive cheering
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.
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.
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.
.@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.
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.
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