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24 Jun, 7 tweets, 5 min read
NEW: A vague @wef plan has inspired dark tales about an authoritarian socialist world government run by powerful elites in the latest reimagining of the "New World Order" conspiracy updated for the age of Covid.

This is the story behind the "Great Reset".
bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tre…
In June 2020, Prince Charles and @ProfKlausSchwab launched an initiative calling for the pandemic to be seen as a chance for a Great Reset of the global economy.

But its huge scope and lack of clarity provided fertile ground for conspiracy theories.
bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tre…
Our analysis, based on data by @Khoros and @crowdtangle, shows the Great Reset has received more than eight million interactions on Facebook and been shared almost two million times on Twitter since its official launch in June 2020. ImageImage
Popular posts claims Covid restrictions were introduced to bring about economic collapse and a socialist world government run by the global elite.

Followers include anti-vaccine activists, anti-lockdown campaigners, new-age healers, and those on the far-right and far-left. ImageImage
These theories gained significant traction in November 2020, when a video went viral showing Canadian PM Justin Trudeau at a UN meeting in September, saying the pandemic provided an opportunity for a "reset".
bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tre…
According to @MelanieFSmith, the Great Reset's "adaptability and close ties with New World Order narratives" makes it likely it will outlast the pandemic, with some narratives seeping into discussions about the global response to climate change.
bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tre…
Needless to say, this piece is about conspiratorial claims, not legitimate criticism of the Great Reset plan.

It was written by @O_Rob1nson, @JackAGoodman, @ChrisSGiles and me, with insight by @MelanieFSmith, and edited by @hugotwilliams and @mwendling.
bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tre…

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25 Apr
Tracy Diaz, aka Tracy Beanz, one of the most prominent early promoters of QAnon, has won an election to become the new state executive committee person of the Horry County Republican Party.

She announced the news on the Telegram channel of her podcast, saying: "It's our time."
As reporting by @oneunderscore__ and @BrandyZadrozny has evidenced, Tracy Diaz was a moderator of the "CBTS_Stream" subreddit alongside Paul Furber and Coleman Rogers, which helped propel QAnon into mainstream.

Diaz herself has explained her involvement in QAnon on her blog.
You can read the details of the vote in this report.

Several QAnon influencers and followers have won elections at local or state levels in recent months, which will likely encourage more QAnon believers to attempt election runs.
myrtlebeachonline.com/news/politics-…
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5 Apr
This is the big reveal in the finale of #QIntotheStorm where Ron Watkins says too much to Cullen Hoback and lets his guard slip.

It was so good it made the whole six hours worth it.
Bear in mind that what Hoback finally extracted out of Ron after three years of chasing is that Ron and his father Jim have basically been in control of Q on 8chan and 8kun, most likely since January 2018.

We still do not know who began posting as Q on 4chan in October 2017.
This is what Ron Watkins posted to his 151,000 Telegram subscribers a day before the documentary's final episode was aired.

He probably knew what was coming.
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17 Mar
A video of President Biden answering a few questions from reporters has set into motion an explosion of old or existing conspiracy theories ranging from "green screen video" to "CGI" to "Biden isn't real" to "Biden is dead" to "Biden body double".
Here are a few examples of the vareity of false claims being made about the video, sometimes by well-known, mainstream, blue tick accounts.
That large, grey microphone is actually further to the right of Biden's hands, not in front of them.

There are multiple videos of the exchange taken from other angles as well as images.

Obviously, there's no green screen or CGI at play.

And, yes, Biden is alive and real...
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17 Mar
There's a Facebook post allegedly written by the main suspect in Atlanta shootings, in which he calls on Americans to "fight back" against China because they "covered up" Covid.

It's a good idea not to share that post as it's not clear if it's genuine. It could well be a fake.
There are a few things about the profile photo in that post that seem suspicious to say the least.

Also, if someone was quick to screenshot his Facebook profile before it was possibly removed - supposing he did have one - why is that the only screenshot making the rounds?
My colleague Marianna has confirmed the screenshot of a Facebook post about China and Covid attributed to Robert Aaron Long is indeed fake 👇
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16 Mar
According to this report, the HBO documentary about QAnon, made by @CullenHoback, is going to claim Ron Watkins is the current Q.
news.yahoo.com/hbo-qanon-docu…
It's worth mentioning that in this rare interview from December 2020, Ron basically says he knows the identity of Q and would be willing to reveal it.

"Some day I'll probably be called under oath to talk about it and then certainly I'll say..."
buzzsprout.com/1249451/7042393
Also bear in mind that even if this claim is made and is proven to be right, we would still not have an answer for the identity of the person or persons who first began posting as Q on 4chan in October 2017, before Q migrated to 8chan a month later.
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