QAnon moves into the shadows but the movement remains solid | Donald Trump’s story

In hindsight, the QAnon plot seems to be missing from the big screen of the TV show. But that is not the case.

QAons known as “big uprisings,” “storms” or “trust the system” are not common on Facebook these days. Facebook and Twitter have deleted thousands of accounts based on the false doctrine, which portrays former President Donald Trump as a secret war hero against a demon-worshiping cult that controls Hollywood, big business, journalists and the government.

The big “Stop the Steal” groups have spread rumors about the US presidential election in 2020. Trump has also been banned from Twitter permanently and banned from posting on Facebook until 2023.

But QAnon is a long way off. Federal law enforcement officials recently warned that its allies could be involved in many acts of violence, such as the Capitol’s violent attack on January 6. One QAnon ally has been elected to Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene. In the four years since a self-proclaimed “Q” began to send complex messages to online chat boards, QAnon has grown.

QAnon now incorporates a variety of terrorist ideas, from sermons or religious sites to pedophilia in Hollywood and Jeffrey Epstein, says Jared Holt, a member of the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab, which specializes in intelligence. “The specifics on Q are declining,” he said. But the global ideas and conspiracies that QAnon did were there.

Free connectivity of the parts with all the strong disbelief, usually of the left wing. Some of them are false anti-vaccine proponents, supporters of Trump’s “Big Lie” for President of 2020 the election was rigged and believers in almost every country believe that the moose’s ability to control itself is secretive.

For social media, dealing with hopeless, shifting and popular ideas is more difficult than it has been in the past.

These ideas “have strengthened their position and are now part of American culture”, says Max Rizzuto, another researcher at DFRLab. “I don’t think we’ll ever see it end again.”

On the Internet, such groups are merging in the background. While Facebook groups previously mentioned QAnon, the groups now have the name, “Since you missed this in MSM,” a “social media” profile page that boasts more than 4,000 followers. Contains links to Tucker Carlson’s Fox News imagery and footnotes such as Newsmax and Daily Wire.

QAnon’s commentary appears on a car that participated in a group event in Adairsville, Georgia, US September 5, 2020 [File: Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters]

They range from so-called criminal cases to lying about electoral fraud and the “war for their rights”. Such groups aim to deepen their followers and guide them to more information on unauthorized pages such as Gab or Speak up.

When DFRLab analyzed more than 40 million QAnon catchphrases and similar expressions on video earlier this year, it found that their availability on multiple platforms had dropped dramatically in recent months. After the meltdown until the end of 2020 and a brief one on January 6, QAnon catchphrases have evaporated in many places, DFRLab has found.

That is why when users may not be able to send Hillary Clinton’s wild boils drinking baby blood, they can repeat the claim that the vaccine can modify your DNA.

There are a number of reasons that limit Q’s talk – Trump has lost the presidential election, for example, and the lack of new information from “Q”. But one big thing that seems to have been the QAnon scandal on Facebook and Twitter. Although there were well-documented errors that revealed the stickiness of the dots, their removal seems to have worked. It is very difficult to get fake QAnon accounts these days, especially on a number of sites that do not include, for example, secret Facebook groups and private messages.

Although QAnon groups, pages and preliminary accounts may be depleted, many of their sponsors remain on the major platforms – but now they are testing their language and watering down QAnon’s worst ideas to their advantage.

“There were some very obvious attempts in the QAnon area to hide their language,” said Angelo Carusone, President and CEO of Media Matters, an independent research group that followed the rise of QAnon. “That’s why they stopped using so many codes, triggers, search terms that led them to criticize them.”

Other dodges may also be helpful. Instead of just naming the letters Q, for example, for the first time this year, facilitators write three asterisks next to their name to indicate adherence to the theory. This is in honor of former Trump Security Adviser Michael Flynn, the three-star general.

Facebook has reported that it has removed nearly 3,300 pages, 10,500 groups, 510 events, 18,300 Facebook accounts and 27,300 Instagram accounts for violating its policies against QAnon. “We continue to consult experts and streamline our work based on the impact of the crisis, including the recovery teams,” the company said.

But the mysterious giant would cut off the people who sent for the late QAnon, citing experts who warned that banning any Q-compliant “could lead to isolation and danger”, the company said. Facebook’s views and responses to QAnon continue to change. Since last August, the company has said it has added a number of new words as its style and language have changed.

Meanwhile, Twitter also said it had taken action to address the potential dangers of cyberbullying. In the aftermath of the January 6 attacks, the company began to completely suspend tens of thousands of accounts that it says are “primarily dedicated” to sharing QAnon’s dangerous assets. Twitter has suspended 150,000 accounts so far. Like Facebook, the company said its response was changing.

But the seizure may come too late. Carusone, for example, found out that Facebook had banned QAnon gangs violently arrested for six weeks before cracking down on QAnon. This gave the fans the realization to reconnect, hide and move to different platforms.

“If it were time for the media company to contribute to QAnon’s content, it would be like months ago, years ago,” said RFuto of DFRLabs’.