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A troll account & its deceptive tweet based on a racist 4chan meme that aimed to spread anti-trans sentiment following the Nashville mass shooting was shared on social media & by right-wing figures & outlets, including Fox’s Tucker Carlson. mediamatters.org/4chan/4chan-an…
Following the shooting, a troll account posted this deceptive tweet & used an image of a trans MMA fighter, which is actually from a 2020 article (which she called the account out for doing.) ImageImageImage
In reality, that Twitter account's handle & its tweet were from a racist 4chan meme. The tweet's wording basically copied the meme & simply replaced a racial slur with another word. knowyourmeme.com/memes/tnd-kill… Image
Despite the tweet being a 4chan-linked deception/hoax, it has spread online & in multiple right-wing outlets as real, including being read last night by Tucker Carlson on his show. Image

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Mar 28
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A QAnon influencer who was reinstated on Twitter under Elon Musk caused a baseless conspiracy theory linking Huggies diapers & pedophilia to gain traction online, forcing the diaper company to publicly rebut it. mediamatters.org/twitter/elon-m…
The QAnon influencer had been banned as part of Twitter's QAnon crackdown after January 6. Under Musk, the account was reinstated in January & is now verified under Twitter Blue.
The false tweet earned tens of thousands of retweets and likes, and Twitter’s view count listed the tweet as having millions of views. It then spread elsewhere online, including getting nearly 1 million combined views on TikTok. ImageImage
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Dec 31, 2022
As 2022 comes to an end, there was some reporting I did this year that I was particularly proud of:
I wrote a multi-part series, "Beyond Q," on QAnon's evolution since 2020 & Trump leaving office. I think it's already held up well, & its broader points on how QAnon has gone on despite "Q" posting less has seemingly become more common in media coverage.
mediamatters.org/qanon-conspira…
While that series was ongoing I also reported specifically about the QAnon community's turn to local politics & school boards, including some previously unreported stories showing that development.
mediamatters.org/qanon-conspira…
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Sep 15, 2022
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How True the Vote's Catherine Engelbrecht & Gregg Phillips formed relationships with QAnon influencers to target an election software company & be a liaison between QAnon influencers & law enforcement after they claimed the FBI spurned them. mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-an…
Engelbrecht & Phillips in recent months have actively collaborated with QAnon influencers to an extraordinary extent, taking the QAnon community’s connection with the election denial movement taken to a new level.
Among the findings from my months-long investigation & monitoring:

-Engelbrecht & Phillips have repeatedly gone on QAnon-supporting shows, with Phillips going on 1 of them more than a dozen times.
-Phillips has openly lauded the QAnon community as a "force"
Read 14 tweets
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Sep 2, 2022
SCOOP: Ivan Raiklin, an election denial activist who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election with his “Pence Card” plan, told a QAnon-supporting show he contacted multiple members of Congress to push his plan, naming some of whom he contacted. mediamatters.org/january-6-insu…
Raiklin, whose "Pence Card" theory Trump amplified on Twitter in December 2020, said he contacted Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Ben Cline (R-VA), Mike Waltz (R-FL), Jim Jordan (R-OH), & Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) to push the plan leading up to January 6. Image
Around the time that Trump amplified Raiklin's "Pence Card" plan, he went on multiple QAnon-supporting shows to promote his theory, during which he agreed with a QAnon influencer that a military coup could be a potential option to overturn the election.
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Aug 10, 2022
SCOOP: An official video posted to Trump’s Truth Social account appeared to use a QAnon song. The song's apparently called "Wwg1wga," which is the QAnon slogan. The QAnon community's celebrating the use of the song as confirmation of the conspiracy theory. mediamatters.org/qanon-conspira…
According to a @mmfa review using both Google’s voice assistant and Apple’s Shazam app, the music in Trump’s video is a song titled "Wwg1wga," produced in 2020 by an artist using the name “Richard Feelgood” on Spotify. That artist has uploaded other QAnon songs. ImageImage
QAnon supporters are celebrating the apparent use of the "Wwg1wga" song in Trump's video, calling it “THE mother of all Q proofs" and claiming of its use, "That’s not an accident. Team Trump knows exactly what they’re doing." ImageImage
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Aug 1, 2022
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How Devin Nunes and Kash Patel appealed to QAnon supporters to build Truth Social’s user base. That has included Patel suggesting that the platform was trying to “incorporate” QAnon “into our overall messaging scheme to capture audiences.” mediamatters.org/truth-social/h…
For months, Truth Social has featured an account called "@ Q." That account has been promoted by Patel, who has served on Truth Social's board, & by Nunes, Truth Social's CEO. The QAnon community due to that has focused intensely on the account.
In fact, Patel and "@ Q" have even caused a new trend in the QAnon community, called "Flannel Friday." Patel bragged about the trend's popularity on Tim Pool's show in May.
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