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The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making?

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"What that means I don't know." I see you're doing your own research. Very QAnon.

Should I not do research and checking?

No, I was messing with you. I don't post a lot. But I'm a sucker for conversations about the consequences of our institutions being full of shit.

Re: The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making?

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> retaining the central belief that a cabal of powerful elites control the world, using their power to covertly abuse children They're going to need to be more precise about the Pizzagate conspiracy, because the above wording very closely describes the Jeffrey Epstein case, which has been proven to be true.

I don't understand - why is it misleading to describe Pizzagate that way because a powerful elite abused children?

Re: The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making?

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If you flood the world with crazy conspiracy theories, when news breaks of an actual crazy conspiracy, nobody will notice. Raise the noise level in the signal, do your clandestine activities in the open.

Ah, my favorite conspiracy theory. The master conspiracy theory: All totally crazy conspiracy theories are created by "them" to discredit the real conspiracies.

You can't be a fan of conspiracy theories and NOT subscribe to this one. That just wouldn't make sense.

Re: The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making?

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This is going to get voted down to hell, but I'd like to reply before it does: America really does have a long history of huge numbers of people believing absolutely insane things. QAnon is the new satanic panic. I'd love to know how and why, but I think the answer is probably just religion.

This is a gross oversimplification, but America was founded by wealthy farmers who believed the conspiracy theories of the day that Great Britain wanted to ruin the colonies, when in reality they just wanted them to pay taxes for the expensive wars that happened there. A healthy distrust of all forms of government is basically required to be an American. It's their greatest attribute, but it's also damned the country…

Exactly

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/19/858812580/conspiracy

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You might not agree that Black lives matter, but it's not a conspiracy theory. With BLM, people are opting in to a social movement rooted in observed police violence. QAnon is not tethered to reality in the slightest.

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Re: The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making?

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One has to believe there's a deliberate intelligence effort signal boosting this a fair bit, meshed within the various layers of accounts/platforms propagating it. Similar example of practices: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/07/ghostwr... The above relies on a fair bit of identity building as well, so Q's source/breeding in more anon platforms helps all the better. Intense stuff.

I never really believed the scale at which foreign (or domestic) actors could affect people politically. I thought the idea that ads or social media posts had any significant effect was laughable. One time, however, I was browsing Twitter, particularly a political thread. It was relatively level-headed (at least as far as social media politics goes) until I saw one reply. Everything about this account was a perfect c…

> writer at "some website" and I decided to check it out

Follows, per that campaign doc I linked. It's interesting how complex it's getting!

That threat intel report was dropped, I went to the website to scope out some of the "authors" that were attributed and saw their articles. I went back a day later and the authors' posts and profiles were down.

What also stood out to me was that website direct linked to some more substantial websites like Zerohedge. Zerohedge has long been iffy, but it still gets read by professionals for the financial analysis it includes. It has a good rep in this area per some historical research it produced.

Just in terms of tight network links, Zerohedge leads to Drudge leads to Fox, which. That's fascinating to me. Your description of that website sounds a lot like campaign's base website for its "authors."

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It seems like the media is talking about this more than anyone else at this point. There have literally been over 2000 articles written to debunk this. The content has been banned from reddit, twitter and other platforms. Why is everyone so vigilant to call it "dangerous"? Why not flat earth and chem trails? Why all the attention for this one thing?

Let me tell you why this is dangerous. QAnon evolved from an earlier movement, the spiritual warfare cult. My Father's family was all very deeply entrenched in this movement and while QAnon may be a new movement the spiritual warfare cult has been around a long time and rears its ugly head in many ways. While I was growing up the spiritual warfare cult was being expressed as the satanic daycare abuse scandals and the…

That's a heartbreaking story.

Re: The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making?

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If you flood the world with crazy conspiracy theories, when news breaks of an actual crazy conspiracy, nobody will notice. Raise the noise level in the signal, do your clandestine activities in the open.

Ah, my favorite conspiracy theory. The master conspiracy theory: All totally crazy conspiracy theories are created by "them" to discredit the real conspiracies.

What makes this an intellectually interesting argument is decently-sourced speculation tha for technical campaigns, IC uses botnets or similar network noise to hide campaigns within. Since technical campaigns seem to pull methodology from pre-technical IC days, that makes these grand conspiracy theories have a weird kernel of truth.
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