A growing right-wing conspiracy theory has garnered national attention after Twitter announced it would remove and suspend accounts associated with it.
What is QAnon and where did it come from?
View described it as meta conspiracy theory that provides an underlying narrative for other baseless theories. According to View, its followers believe that this"worldwide cabal of satanic pedophiles" run"all the major levers of power," including government, media, business and Hollywood. An anonymous poster named Q shares cryptic tips that followers then decode to learn the ways in which the"deep state" controls the world, how Trump is battling and marching orders to join in, said Angelo Carusone, the president of Media Matters for America, a nonprofit that researches misinformation in the United States.View said the first of these tips, dubbed Q drops, was posted on 4chan on Oct. 28, 2017, by a poster claiming to have insider information about the government.
Many falsely believe that mainstream U.S. media outlets receive an email at 4 a.m. every morning dictating what to cover. Others bizarrely say adrenochrome, a chemical compound, is the drug of the elite, and the only way to get the substance is to torture and kill children.was recently the target of an unsubstantiated QAnon belief that the company was trafficking children through listings of products with inflated prices.
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