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

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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 am convinced that Q, if not started, was quickly taken over and turned into a Russian psyop. I expected the Mueller report to validate this (gross online astroturfing campaigns by state actors), but unless it is in the redacted parts, it is not there. But even casually investigating banned Twitter accounts used for Russian propaganda, you see a lot of clear connections with the "totally organic" Christian MAGA Qanon soccer mom accounts.

Leaves me mere speculation: I believe Q was initially conceived in case Trump had lost the election. It was to be a group of useful idiots/unwitting agents protesting about the "rigged" election, maybe even riled up to the point of taking up arms. Then when Trump won it was repurposed to sow disinformation about child sacrifice and child porn rings by the elite democrats. 9/11 saw the same thing: Massive efforts by Russia and Middle Eastern countries to seed inside job conspiracy theories. With the result that many Americans now believe 9/11 was an inside job, and can't really trust their government anymore (social cohesion damaged).

I believe some of these unwitting agents are so impressionable and gullible, that they can be made to act as "manchurian candidates", doing the bidding of foreign intelligence agencies (spreading propaganda, muddying the waters with disinformation and conspiracy, picking up a gun and going out to free children from a basement of a pizza parlor). I believe these intel agencies are able to infiltrate grassroots movements and subvert their ideals to be hostile to their host countries. I believe these agencies are able to create fake online realities, where unwitting agents are made to be believe they are part of something big, and everyone agrees with them, while they are psychologically manipulated.

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

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This is the result of under funding education, and allowing the boundary between church and state to blur. Those with a religious fairy tale cause and effect understanding of reality, QAnon makes perfect sense. While anyone with a firm foundation in reality sees pure nonsense.

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

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Also recommended, a deep dive into QAnon from the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-n...

It's also worth examining the material itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtjTRYrF8X4&list=PL18vrD9EPj...

and

https://qanon.pub/

are popular stops.

The media is often presenting a less-crazy image of QAnon than it actually is. It is growing in influence:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/11/qanon-facebo...

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

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post #44

When people lose faith in the people who are supposed to be telling the truth, they look for other things to fill the gap. The media is unreliable to say the least, government is compromised and corrupt, the academy is both self-serving and "woke." Why wouldn't alternative explanations for things seem appealing at this point?

Your post is the 4th made from an account created 12 months ago. What that means I don't know. But it's signalling a lot of 'you can't trust anything' which is interesting.

"What that means I don't know."

I see you're doing your own research. Very QAnon.

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.

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.

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

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post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your post is the 4th made from an account created 12 months ago. What that means I don't know. But it's signalling a lot of 'you can't trust anything' which is interesting.

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

Should I not do research and checking?

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

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post #15

Black Live Matters and QAnon = two sides of the same coin brainwashing people. Blue (democrats) or Red (republicans): pick your poison.

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.

Some Black Power and Black Israelite proponents do seem to believe that a very literal, criminal conspiracy is involved in oppressing Blacks, going far beyond the mainstream characterization of "racism". To be sure, these views are not exactly widespread or mainstream in the BLM movement - but they're probably at least as common as belief in the Qanon story.

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

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post #31

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?

Because there is at least one Republican politician who will win a House seat in November and is a firm believer.

And five more who have expressed varying degrees of support or credence:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/politics/qanon-congressional-...

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