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Sep 12, 2020 · Sep 12, 2020, 7:06 AM PDT. Ben Gilbert/Business Insider. A popular site for the dissemination of QAnon posts and ideas shut down after a fact-checking group identified the site developer.
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Bloomberg News. Popular aggregator site received millions of monthly visitors. Qmap.pub’s creator is known online only as ‘QAppAnon’. A popular website for posts about the conspiracy group QAnon abruptly shut down after a fact-checking group identified the developer as a New Jersey man.
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Sep 12, 2020 · A popular site for the dissemination of QAnon posts and ideas shut down after a fact-checking group identified the site developer.
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Rein Lively wasn't particularly political on social media before COVID-19, and neither were some of the new-age groups that focused on the Earth’s energy, which she read voraciously. She said she was most active in a 20,000-member Facebook group called "THE EVENT/THE SHIFT," a group focused on how the world is set for a dramatic "shift" because of ...
Rein Lively's example is an extreme version of what experts who study radicalization said has become a distinct pattern during the pandemic: People with time on their hands, looking for answers, are led down a radical path by niche interests and the internet's tendency to feed their darkest curiosities. Those communities have in turn been energized...
For many wannabe anti-mask influencers, the confrontation is the point. While comedians poke fun at the viral rants, anti-mask conspiracy theory communities on Facebook cheer them on, often in private groups with tens of thousands of members. Renee DiResta, the technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory, which studies information t...
Rein Lively said she was "craving connection" in the weeks before the Target video, that she "couldn't just go and sit with a table of people and have a glass of wine like I'm used to." Her audience on Instagram was providing a stand-in for that personal attention. "My audience should've been a lot bigger before I flew into it," she joked. "I thoug...
Apr 8, 2020 · After the WHO upgraded COVID-19 to pandemic status and the U.S. announced it was closing its borders to , QAnon changed the narrative again. Suddenly, QAnon thought the pandemic was...
Jan 29, 2021 · As demonstrated repeatedly in our timeline, QAnon is extremely adept at adapting to contradictions and challenges. The conspiracy has weathered both homelessness on the internet (the 8chan shutdown and 4chan migration) and longer freezes in Q drops (101 days from August to November 2019) before. It may yet survive.
Jan 31, 2021 · After the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the social media platforms that had long allowed the falsehoods to spread like wildfire — namely Twitter, Facebook and YouTube — got more aggressive in...
