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  • QAnon began with a username. On the 28th of October 2017, a poster calling themselves Q Clearance Patriot appeared on the /pol/ board of the website 4chan, in a thread titled "Calm Before the Storm". The name was a boast. Q clearance is a United States Department of Energy security level, required to see Top Secret information on nuclear weapons and materials. The poster implied access to that world and used it to announce that Hillary Clinton was about to be arrested.

    A second message arrived a few hours later. It said Clinton was being "detained" and that Donald Trump was planning to remove "criminal rogue elements". The claims were fabricated. Yet this anonymous account grew into an American conspiracy theory and political movement. It reached rallies, bookshelves and churches, and it spread far beyond the United States.

    How did a cabal of child abusers, and a president secretly fighting it, become a story millions of people followed? Why did the story survive prediction after failed prediction? What did it borrow from older panics and older prejudices? And who, if anyone, was actually behind the name Q?

  • The leak of emails belonging to Clinton campaigner John Podesta in 2016 lit the first fuse. Promoters of a theory called Pizzagate decided the messages hid a secret code about child sexual abuse. They claimed high-profile Democrats were abusing children at a pizzeria in Washington, D.C. A gunman who believed the story attacked the restaurant with a weapon. QAnon researcher Mike Rothschild said that "no conspiracy theory feeds more immediately into Q than Pizzagate".

    The inheritance was specific. The allegation of child sexual abuse carried over, and so did the Clinton family's place at its center. In time the Clintons faded from that role, replaced by looser talk of a worldwide elite of child sex traffickers. Q never used the word Pizzagate but kept referring to its claims.

    The investigative journalism website Bellingcat pointed to a stranger bridge. It called the Human Trafficking General threads, known as /htg/, on 4chan's /pol/ board "the missing link" between Pizzagate and QAnon. Pizzagate offered a limited stack of emails to comb through. The /htg/ threads let users take part in the imagined storylines themselves. A key poster named Anonymous5, also called "Frank", claimed to be a child prostitution investigator. Without a coherent narrative, though, the trend never matched Pizzagate's popularity.

    Most of QAnon's core ideas were already circulating on 4chan before Q appeared. Posters had claimed that Hillary Clinton was directly involved in a child sex ring, that Robert Mueller secretly worked with Trump, and that large military tribunals were close. Q aimed at people the community already despised: Clinton, Barack Obama and George Soros. Bellingcat says the idea of the Storm was copied from a poster called Victory of the Light, who had predicted an "Event" of mass, televised arrests of the "Cabal".

    Q was also not the first anonymous poster to claim inside access. On the 2nd of July 2016, a poster called FBIAnon, a self-described "high-level analyst and strategist", began posting false information about the investigation into the Clinton Foundation. FBIAnon said Clinton would be imprisoned if Trump became president. Around then, HLIAnon, short for High-Level Insider Anon, hosted long question-and-answer sessions. One of its claims was that Princess Diana was murdered after trying to stop the September 11 attacks.

    Soon after the 2016 elections, two posters named CIAAnon and CIAIntern falsely said they were high-ranking officers at the Central Intelligence Agency. In late August 2017, another, WHInsiderAnon, offered a supposed preview that something was "going to go down" over leaks that would hurt the Democratic Party.

  • Two 4chan moderators spent November 2017 hunting for a bigger audience for Q. One was Paul Furber, a South African conspiracy theorist with an interest in U.S. politics who went by "BaruchtheScribe". The other was Coleman Rogers, known as "Pamphlet Anon". Together with the YouTuber Tracy Diaz, they set up a subreddit called r/CBTS_Stream where subscribers discussed Q. Reddit permanently closed it in March 2018 for inciting violence and posting private information.

    Rogers and his wife, Christina Urso, launched Patriots' Soapbox, a YouTube livestream devoted to QAnon, and used it to ask for donations. Lauren Boebert, later a U.S. representative, appeared as a guest during her 2020 congressional campaign. Meanwhile Q left 4chan, citing concern that the board had been "infiltrated", and posted only on 8chan from then on. In August 2019, 8chan was shut down after it was linked to the El Paso shooting and other violent incidents. Followers drifted to Endchan until 8chan returned under the name 8kun.

    Newsweek, in November 2017, called QAnon "Pizzagate on steroids". Gossip columnist Liz Crokin, a Pizzagate follower, was among the first public figures to embrace it, and she became one of its most prominent influencers. In early 2018, Fox News personality Sean Hannity and comedian Roseanne Barr passed it to their social media followers. InfoWars host Alex Jones claimed to be in personal contact with Q. In July 2018, QAnon followers showed up at a Trump rally in Tampa, Florida, the first visible sign of the movement at his events. Trump later amplified QAnon accounts on Twitter.

    Some pastors carried the ideas into church. The Omega Kingdom Ministry in Indiana read Q posts and Bible verses side by side in services. Pastor Derek Kubilus called QAnon heresy, though most American pastors took no stand against it.

    QAnon also became a retail business. Merchandise filled Amazon's online marketplace in 2018. In 2019, a book credited to a group of 12 followers, QAnon: An Invitation to the Great Awakening, neared the top of Amazon's bestseller list, possibly through algorithmic manipulation. That same year a blogger called Neon Revolt, an alias of the former aspiring screenwriter Robert Cornero Jr., self-published Revolution Q. By 2020, Politico counted 100 QAnon titles on Amazon's marketplace, in many languages and with mostly positive reviews.

    Because Q's posts were scattered, aggregator sites became essential. The most famous, QMap, was run by a pseudonymous developer called QAPPANON. In September 2020 the British fact-checking organization Logically published a report identifying him as Jason Gelinas, a security analyst based in New Jersey. QMap shut down shortly afterward. That same year Facebook ran an internal investigation and found thousands of QAnon groups and pages with millions of members and followers.

    Foreign governments noticed the audience. According to Reuters, Russian-backed social media accounts were promoting QAnon claims as early as November or December 2017. Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik amplified it from 2019, citing it as proof that the United States was torn by internal strife. The Soufan Center, a national security research group, studied 166,820 QAnon posts in the United States between January 2020 and February 2021. It found that one-fifth came from other countries, mostly Russia and China, with China the primary foreign promoter. The far-right Epoch Media Group, linked to Falun Gong, also pushed the theory. Data scientist Emilio Ferrara found that about 25% of accounts using QAnon hashtags, retweeting InfoWars or retweeting One America News Network were bots.

    In August 2020, researcher Marc-André Argentino counted QAnon-dedicated Facebook pages in 71 countries. Between March and June 2020, QAnon activity nearly tripled on Facebook and nearly doubled on Instagram and Twitter. In Germany, an audience estimated at 200,000 in 2020 followed it on YouTube, Facebook and Telegram. Reichsbürger groups, who hold that modern Germany is a corporation created by the Allies, adopted it and hoped Trump would restore the Reich. A March 2022 study by the think tank CeMAS found that more than one in ten Germans agreed with QAnon's theories.

    A 2020 survey in Britain found that one in four respondents believed in QAnon-related theories, though only 6% supported QAnon itself. In October 2021, the French QAnon-associated theorist Rémy Daillet-Wiedemann was charged with terrorism for planning a coup against the French government. In July 2020, a gunman and QAnon follower drove onto the grounds of Rideau Hall, the temporary residence of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, intending to "arrest" him. In April 2022, Tokyo police arrested several members of a Japanese group called YamatoQ for breaking into a clinic that gave COVID-19 vaccinations. A 2020 paper from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue ranked Australia the fourth-largest producer of QAnon material, after the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.

  • Thousands of arrests, military tribunals and possible imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay: that was the promised result of the Storm, also called the Event. Q took the label from a phrase Trump had used about a gathering of American military leaders. Followers believed a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping child molesters controlled the world and hid itself by controlling politicians, the mainstream media and Hollywood. Trump was secretly fighting it, and Q reported on the battle. Afterward, the U.S. military would take over the country, and salvation and utopia would follow. Q implied that the cabal could fall only with help from the "patriots" in the community.

    The list of accused people was long. Followers placed Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the cabal. They added George Soros, Bill Gates, Pope Francis, the Dalai Lama, Anthony Fauci, Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Lady Gaga and Chrissy Teigen. Tom Hanks became a special target. When he went into quarantine at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a rumor spread that he had been arrested on child abuse charges. In July 2021, some followers took seriously an article from a fake news website, Real Raw News, claiming that the U.S. military had executed him. Another strand held that Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, Avicii and Anthony Bourdain were murdered to hide their alleged involvement in a human trafficking documentary.

    Q also rewrote the Russia investigation. According to one claim, the Mueller probe was a counter-coup. Trump supposedly pretended to conspire with Russia so he could hire Mueller to investigate Democrats secretly. Mueller would then expose the child sex ring and stop a coup planned by Obama, Clinton and Soros.

    Until the 2020 election, a recurring prediction held that Trump would win in a landslide and spend a second term dismantling the deep state. After he lost and Q stopped posting, the prophecies kept coming. One said Biden's inauguration on the 20th of January 2021 was a trap, after which Democrats would be arrested en masse and executed. Another said Trump would be inaugurated as the 19th president on the 4th of March 2021. When that failed, the date moved to the 20th of March, and then to the 13th of August 2021. Others bet on the Arizona audit setting off a domino effect of states returning to Trump, or on the 2021 California gubernatorial recall proving fraudulent.

    Beneath all of this lay the claim that children were being abducted in a trafficking ring, which followers equated with the cabal. Added to it was a belief in "adrenochrome harvesting". In this telling, elites torture or sacrifice children in Satanic rituals to extract adrenaline produced by fear and turn it into a psychoactive drug. One version says abusers drink it as an elixir to stay young. In reality, adrenochrome is made only for research and has no medical uses. The alleged "Frazzledrip" video, said to show Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin murdering a child, was supposed to depict such a harvest.

    In June 2020, a group led by QAnon promoter Timothy Charles Holmseth called itself the Pentagon Pedophile Task Force, despite having no link to the Pentagon or any government agency. It spread false claims about tens of thousands of children held hostage and tortured in New York City. By 2020, followers were also using the hashtag #SaveTheChildren, borrowing the trademarked name of a child welfare organization. Save the Children issued a statement on the 7th of August objecting to the unauthorized use. In September, Facebook and Instagram began redirecting searches for the hashtag to the real charity, and in October Facebook said it would limit the hashtag's reach.

    The furniture company Wayfair got caught up in it too. Followers falsely accused it of selling expensive furniture to launder money from child sex trafficking. Wayfair competed with Overstock, whose former chief executive, Patrick Byrne, was a QAnon promoter. The accusations against entertainers rested on unproven claims by the actor Isaac Kappy, who in 2018 accused several Hollywood stars of pedophilia.

    Commentator Travis View argued in a Washington Post column that such baseless claims harm the credibility of the fight against child sexual abuse and distract from actual crimes. Followers also took credit for arrests they had nothing to do with. QAnon promoter Jordan Sather credited 4chan and 8chan for Jeffrey Epstein's arrest, though neither the reporting nor the indictment mentioned those forums. In May 2022, The New York Times reported that QAnon supporters were intercepting child migrants at the Mexico-United States border to collect information on their families.

  • A podcast built to debunk the movement, QAnon Anonymous, calls it a "big tent conspiracy theory". The label fits. QAnon took in older stories about the Kennedy assassination, U.F.O.s and 9/11. In 2018, Liz Crokin promoted the idea that John F. Kennedy Jr. faked his death and was Q. Others claimed that a Pittsburgh Trump supporter named Vincent Fusca was Kennedy Jr. in disguise and would be Trump's 2020 running mate.

    In November 2021, hundreds of people gathered in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, where President Kennedy was killed. They expected to see the return of Kennedy Jr., or of both Kennedys. In their telling, Trump would be reinstated, then step aside so Kennedy Jr. could become president and name Michael Flynn as his vice president. QAnon researcher Will Sommer estimates that about 20% of followers believe the Kennedy Jr. story. Most find it too "farcical on its face".

    The movement overlaps with the sovereign citizens, a loose grouping of pseudolegal believers who say most laws and taxes can be ignored if the right procedures are used. In 2022, the Anti-Defamation League reported that sovereign citizen ideas were attracting a growing number of QAnon adherents. Belief that the Biden administration was illegitimate fit neatly with the sovereign citizens' anti-government views.

    Vaccines drew Q's attention early. In 2018, Q placed "vaccines not all" within a Big Pharma conspiracy. Yet Q did not mention the pandemic until the 23rd of March 2020, when the "China virus" appeared in a post. The name COVID-19 followed on the 8th of April. Very little of the movement's pandemic activity came from Q. Influencers did the work, openly opposing masks and vaccines. Some touted drinking industrial bleach, sold as Miracle Mineral Solution, as a cure. Q suggested that hydroxychloroquine, which Trump then endorsed, was a cure, and accused Democrats of forcing infected patients into nursing homes. Some followers said the pandemic was fake, and others said the deep state created it. Adherents also promoted the video Plandemic.

    In March 2022, CNN, France 24 and Foreign Policy reported that QAnon promoters were repeating Russian disinformation about United States-funded laboratories in Ukraine. Russian state media falsely claimed that secret American biolabs were building weapons. The U.S., Ukraine and the United Nations refuted this. The labs were set up to secure and dismantle the remnants of the Soviet biological weapons program, and later to monitor and prevent new epidemics. They are publicly listed and owned by host countries.

    Before the invasion, QAnon-adjacent groups had been hostile to China. Analyst Elise Thomas wrote for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue that Xi Jinping had been recast "from a villain to a hero" in an astoundingly short time. Supporters also took up NESARA, an economic conspiracy theory, and Bellingcat reported in 2022 that many QAnon Telegram channels were increasingly devoted to it.

    Some adherents embraced the reptilian conspiracy theory, which says the Satanic cabal consists of shapeshifting reptilian humanoids. News reports linked this to killings of suspected "lizard people". A California father tried to kill his children, fearing they had inherited "serpent DNA" from their mother. A Seattle-based member of the Proud Boys, who often shared QAnon-linked material on Facebook, tried to murder his brother on suspicion of reptilian ancestry.

  • Calm, authoritative and never drawn into an argument: that was the persona behind thousands of Q posts on 4chan, 8chan and 8kun. Q rarely interacted with other posters. The drops were allusive, cryptic and impossible to verify, and some included strings of characters said to be coded messages. Q favored a conspiratorial tone, with lines like "I've said too much" and "Some things must remain classified to the very end". To keep faith in eventual victory, Q repeated "Trust the plan", "Enjoy the show" and "Nothing can stop what is coming".

    Q also told followers to "Follow the White Rabbit". A Facebook group by that name had around 90,000 members in 2020. The author Walter Kirn called Q an innovator for hooking readers with clues rather than assertions. In his words: "The audience for internet narratives doesn't want to read, it wants to write. It doesn't want answers provided, it wants to search for them."

    Q's posts grew vaguer over time, which let followers map their own beliefs onto them. When specific predictions failed, Q sometimes said "disinformation is necessary". Psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky called the theory "self-sealing", because evidence against it can turn into evidence for it in believers' minds. Among the falsehoods Q posted were that the CIA installed Kim Jong-un as a puppet ruler and that Debbie Wasserman Schultz hired the gang MS-13 to murder Seth Rich. Q also suggested that Angela Merkel was Adolf Hitler's granddaughter.

    A whole vocabulary grew around the drops. Q called them "crumbs", and followers who analyzed them called themselves "bakers" who assemble crumbs into "bread". "Where we go one, we go all", abbreviated WWG1WGA, was first used by Q in April 2018. Followers shouted "Do your own research", described people as "white hats" or "black hats", and called themselves "red pilled" once aware. Some wrote 17anon, since Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet, to slip past social media algorithms. Some even used a "Q clock", a wheel of concentric dials meant to decode the timing of Q's posts against Trump's tweets.

    By 2020, researchers broadly accepted that several people had controlled the Q account. A stylometric analysis suggested two authors, with signatures matching different periods and forums. Metadata on Q's images suggested a poster in the Pacific Time Zone. On imageboards, a tripcode gives an anonymous poster a consistent signature, but Q's tripcode changed several times. Weak passwords on 8chan meant it was repeatedly cracked by impostors. When 8chan returned as 8kun in November 2019, the new Q posted photos of a pen and notebook seen in earlier posts to prove continuity.

    In 2021, Bellingcat studied obscure posts from Q's first days. They contained text identical to later, clearly authentic messages but showed Q acting like any other 4chan poster. Bellingcat concluded that the author was still finding the voice of the persona. That suggests Q began as one poster among many, not a powerful insider. Early guesses ranged from a military intelligence officer to Michael Flynn, Stephen Miller or Trump himself. In 2018 some wondered whether the puzzle group Cicada 3301 or a left-wing art collective was staging a prank.

    Fredrick Brennan, the original owner of 8chan, said in June 2020 that Q either knew Jim or Ron Watkins or was hired by one of them. He later suggested Paul Furber was the original Q. Brennan noted that when Q's first password, "Matlock", was cracked on New Year's Day 2018, Furber was asked to confirm the new Q shared the old Q's IP address. He suspects Ron Watkins then took the account from Furber using his administrator privileges. Furber denies ever being Q, and both Watkinses say they do not know who Q is.

    Filmmaker Cullen Hoback spent three years investigating for the 2021 HBO docuseries Q: Into the Storm. In its last episode, Ron Watkins said on camera: "Because I am not Q, and I never was." Hoback took an earlier remark as an inadvertent admission and concluded Watkins was Q. Watkins denied it again before the series premiered. On the 19th of February 2022, The New York Times reported that two independent forensic linguistics teams had found Furber was the main author of the initial posts. Watkins took over at the start of 2018. Furber said Q's writing style had influenced his own, not the other way around.

    In June 2022, Q reappeared. 8kun had changed its salt, the value that makes tripcodes unrepeatable, so the old tripcode should have been impossible. Yet Q's tripcode was identical to 2020's. Either 8kun's administrators knew Q would post or they made the post. Soon after, 8kun changed the salt back, and Jim Watkins confirmed the new drops were authentic within hours.

  • Historian Richard Hofstadter's 1964 essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics", is the frame Salon writer Matthew Rozsa used to explain QAnon. American politics had hosted conspiracy theories long before, including those promoted by groups like the John Birch Society. Like Pizzagate, QAnon also resembles the Satanic panic of the 1980s, when hundreds of daycare workers were falsely accused of abusing children.

    The movement's language is openly Christian. The "Storm" echoes the Genesis flood or Judgment Day, and the "Great Awakening" recalls religious revivals of earlier centuries. Followers regard Trump as a flawed Christian and also as a messiah sent by God. One QAnon video described the fight against the cabal as "biblical proportions". Author Alexander Reid Ross reports that some supporters call the coming reckoning a "reverse rapture", meaning the end of the world and a new beginning.

    Religious studies scholar Julie Ingersoll argues that evangelicals made QAnon's acceptance possible. She points to apocalyptic, conspiratorial and persecution themes in evangelical media from the 1970s on. Scholar S. Jonathon O'Donnell sees close parallels between QAnon and Christian spiritual warfare, with overlapping followers. One scholar called QAnon part Frank Peretti spiritual warfare, part Left Behind apocalypticism and part antisemitic Elders of Zion conspiracy theory, wrapped in reality television.

    The worldview also builds on Christian dualism, a stark struggle between good and evil with little room for compromise. That dualism was itself shaped by Manichaeism, a belief system that flourished in the late Roman and early medieval periods and pictured a cosmic battle between light and darkness. A centuries-old fear of a hidden, malevolent force runs through the story too. The Malleus Maleficarum accused witches of plotting with Satan to corrupt society from within. Historian Niall Ferguson argues that such panics tend to arise in unstable times, when societies want scapegoats. QAnon also echoes early-Christian Gnosticism, the idea that the world's true nature is hidden and open only to those with special insight.

    The Malleus Maleficarum also described pacts with the Devil, nocturnal sabbaths and ritual sacrifice. Those accusations drew on the medieval blood libel, the false claim that Jewish communities murder children for ritual purposes. The 1980s panic leaned on claims from the Recovered Memory movement of the 1990s. QAnon's adrenochrome story carries the same pattern, in which a secret elite worships evil through harm to children.

    On antisemitism, researchers disagree about degree. The Anti-Defamation League noted that "the vast majority of QAnon-inspired conspiracy theories have nothing to do with anti-Semitism" but found "troubling examples" in tweets about Soros and the Rothschilds. Ethan Zuckerman and Mike McQuade called QAnon more anti-elite than explicitly antisemitic. The Washington Post and The Forward saw "racist and anti-Semitic undertones" and "striking anti-Semitic elements". In February 2022, social media users shared images of a sculpture of Simon of Trent, a child whose death was falsely blamed on the town's Jewish population, as supposed proof that elites harvest adrenochrome.

    Genocide scholar Gregory Stanton called QAnon a "Nazi cult rebranded". In the United States, Republican follower Mary Ann Mendoza retweeted a thread on the Rothschilds and wrote that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fabricated antisemitic text from 1903, "is not a fabrication". An April 2021 Morning Consult poll found that 49% of Americans who believe in QAnon agree with the Protocols. Among Americans who agree with the Protocols, 78% believe in QAnon. In 2021, the Anti-Defamation League reported that neo-Nazis were exploiting the lack of QAnon leadership on Telegram to spread antisemitic theories.

  • The online forum r/QAnonCasualties, a support group for people whose loved ones fell into QAnon, grew from 3,500 participants in June 2020 to 28,000 by October. Its growth said something about how the movement worked. Renee DiResta, an expert in online conspiracy, compared QAnon's pull to that of pre-internet cults, in which recruits are drawn deeper into secrets and cut off from friends and family. Cult recovery specialist Rachel Bernstein said QAnon makes people feel connected to something important that others do not yet know.

    Travis View described QAnon as addictive as a video game. It offers its "player" the chance to take part in something of world-historical importance from a computer, searching, posting and promising to change the country in an almost bloodless revolution. Ordinary politics, in contrast, might mean helping to elect a state legislator. View says QAnon competes not in the marketplace of ideas but in the marketplace of realities. The New Yorker likened it to "a form of interactive role-playing". Brian Levin of California State University, San Bernardino, pointed to the "visceral appeal of an anti-elite message" that is elastic enough to attract the fearful and disenfranchised. Scholar Mia Bloom called it unique in its ability to mutate and adapt, absorbing local grievances abroad.

    Pastel QAnon, a term from Concordia University researcher Marc-André Argentino, covers techniques for drawing in women, mainly on Instagram, Facebook, Telegram and YouTube. It borrows the look and language of lifestyle influencers, using personal anecdotes and gateway issues such as child sex trafficking. Related street protests in the U.S. and U.K. tend to draw more women and a younger, more politically diverse crowd, including people opposed to Trump.

    In August 2018, a Qualtrics poll for The Washington Post found that 58% of Floridians knew enough about QAnon to hold an opinion, and most opinions were unfavorable. In March 2020, a Pew survey found that 76% of Americans had never heard of QAnon, 20% had heard a little and 3% a lot. By September 2020, among the 47% who had heard of it, 41% of Republicans and Republican leaners said QAnon was good for the country, compared with 7% of Democrats and Democratic leaners.

    In February 2021, an American Enterprise Institute poll found that 29% of Republicans believed the central claim that Trump had been secretly fighting child sex traffickers including prominent Democrats and Hollywood elites. A March 2021 PRRI survey found 28% of Republicans, against 14% of Democrats, agreed that a coming "storm" would sweep the elites from power. It also found 28% of Republicans and 7% of Democrats agreed that true American patriots may have to resort to violence. PRRI found that 26% of Hispanic Protestants and 25% of white evangelical Protestants held the core belief about Satan-worshipping pedophiles, against 8% of Jews. Belief rose after Trump left office, from 14% of Americans in March 2021 to 17% by October. In 2024, PRRI put the figure at 19%, and at 32% among Trump-supporting Republicans.

    Failure hurt the movement long before the election. Q predicted Republican success in the 2018 midterms and said Attorney General Jeff Sessions was secretly working for Trump. When Democrats made significant gains and Trump fired Sessions, many followers were disillusioned. A predicted mass arrest on the 5th of December, with Trump's enemies sent to Guantanamo, never happened either. Psychologist Robert Lifton said failed prophecies can lead to "forcing the end", as with apocalyptic groups like Heaven's Gate, the People's Temple, the Manson Family and Aum Shinrikyo. View feared followers might act alone, as Pizzagate follower Edgar Maddison Welch did in 2016, as Matthew Phillip Wright did at Hoover Dam in 2018, and as Anthony Comello did in 2019 when he murdered Mafia boss Frank Cali, believing Trump protected him. In February 2019, Liz Crokin warned that people might turn to "vigilante justice".

    After Trump lost the 2020 election, Q's posting fell sharply and stopped altogether a month later. The last drop for 18 months came on the 8th of December 2020. Associates of Trump, among them Michael Flynn, Lin Wood and Sidney Powell, promoted QAnon-derived conspiracy theories as followers sought to overturn the result. When those efforts failed, Trump supporters, many of them QAnon followers, attacked the U.S. Capitol on the 6th of January 2021. A deeper, longer social media crackdown followed.

    Biden's inauguration was a crushing disappointment for those who had expected something momentous. According to the book Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon, some believers experienced deep melancholy, suicidal ideation or self-harm. Ron Watkins wrote on a message board: "We gave it our all, now we need to keep our chins up and go back to our lives as best we are able." Steve Bannon and Bill Still denounced QAnon as a psyop. Michael Flynn, in a leaked conversation, called it a "disinformation campaign to make people look like a bunch of kooks".

    Mike Rothschild, author of a book on QAnon, said in 2021 that the movement had "outgrown the need for new drops". Analysts feared hardliners might be recruited by the alt-right, white nationalists or neo-Nazis. A Telegram network called Sabmyk, set up by German artist Sebastian Bieniek, now courts followers disillusioned by Q's failed predictions. It shares QAnon beliefs and adds a leader-prophet, Sabmyk, who is meant to lead humanity's "awakening".

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  36. 36The Making of QAnon: A Crowdsourced ConspiracyJanuary 7, 2021
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  38. 38How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked QanonBrandy Zadrozny et al. — August 8, 2018
  39. 39There's a new, insane conspiracy theory tearing up 4chanRandall Colburn — December 19, 2017
  40. 40What is The Storm? Conspiracy theory that mysterious White House official leaks secretsKashmira Gander — January 15, 2018
  41. 41Departmental Personnel Security FAQsU.S. Department of Energy
  42. 42QAnon, the scarily popular pro-Trump conspiracy theory, explainedJane Coaston — August 21, 2020
  43. 43The QAnon Timeline: Four Years, 5,000 Drops and Countless Failed PropheciesEdward Tian — January 21, 2021
  44. 44One year later, had the QAnon movement finally passed?Mike Rothschild — October 29, 2018
  45. 45NewsWhy the QAnon conspiracy is the natural culmination of the Trump eraPhilip Bump — August 1, 2018
  46. 46NewsHillary Clinton, Pedophilia and Ankle Bracelets; New Trump-Supporter Conspiracy Theory Is Pizzagate on SteroidsJason Le Miere — November 20, 2017
  47. 47YouTube's conspiracy theory crisis, explainedJane Coaston — December 14, 2018
  48. 48Is a Hillary Clinton 'Snuff Film' Circulating on the Dark Web?David Emery — April 16, 2018
  49. 49NewsWho is behind QAnon? Linguistic detectives find fingerprintsDavid D. Kirkpatrick — February 19, 2022
  50. 50Qurious About QAnon? Get the Facts About This Dangerous Conspiracy TheoryDan Evon — August 21, 2020
  51. 51NewsDouble trouble for Broward deputy: One patch for QAnon conspiracy, another for his SWAT teamHoward Altman — December 5, 2018
  52. 52NewsHow UI grad Liz Crokin became one of QAnon's biggest influencersEmma McClatchey — May 4, 2021
  53. 53A list of the right-wing amplifiers of the QAnon conspiracy theoryCristina López G. et al. — August 2, 2018
  54. 54The definitive guide to Fox News' treatment of the QAnon conspiracy theoryMadeline Peltz et al. — August 21, 2020
  55. 55NewsAs the bizarre QAnon group emerges, Trump rallies go from nasty to dangerousMargaret Sullivan — August 1, 2018
  56. 56How QAnon uses religion to lure unsuspecting ChristiansDaniel Burke — October 15, 2020
  57. 57NewsQAnon's corrosive impact on the U.S.Lesley Stahl et al. — February 22, 2021
  58. 58NewsQAnon's growth mirrors sharp spike in far-right extremist violence in US: ExpertsChris Francescani — September 22, 2020
  59. 59Like the fringe conspiracy theory Qanon? There's plenty of merch for sale on AmazonBrandy Zadrozny et al. — July 18, 2018
  60. 60NewsOn Amazon, a Qanon conspiracy book climbs the charts — with an algorithmic pushBen Collins — March 5, 2019
  61. 61NewsHow a conspiracy theory about Democrats drinking children's blood topped Amazon's best-sellers listKaitlyn Tiffany — March 6, 2019
  62. 62NewsFailed Screenwriter from New Jersey Behind One of QAnon's Most Influential PersonasNick Backovic — January 11, 2021
  63. 63NewsConspiracy theories run wild on AmazonMark Scott — December 22, 2020
  64. 64NewsQAnon posts by figurehead Q may be written by more than one personChris Stokel-Walker — July 29, 2021
  65. 65NewsA Trail of 'Bread Crumbs,' Leading Conspiracy Theorists Into the WildernessMattathias Schwartz — September 11, 2018
  66. 66QAnon Key Figure Revealed as Financial Information Security Analyst from New JerseyJoe Ondrak et al. — September 10, 2020
  67. 67NewsQAnon Website Shuts Down After N.J. Man Identified as OperatorWilliam Turton — September 11, 2020
  68. 68Did an IP address accidentally reveal QAnon's identity?Mike Rothschild — August 28, 2020
  69. 69QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents showAri Sen et al. — August 10, 2020
  70. 70NewsHow a Trash-Talking Upstart Infuriated QAnon BoomersWill Sommer — March 13, 2020
  71. 71Quantifying The Q Conspiracy: A Data-Driven Approach to Understanding the Threat Posed by QAnonApril 19, 2021
  72. 72JournalThe next-generation bots interfering with the US electionGiorgia Guglielmi — October 28, 2020
  73. 73NewsQAnon believers grapple with doubt, spin new theories as Trump era endsDrew Harwell et al. — January 20, 2021
  74. 74News日本で繰り返されるトランプ応援デモの主催者・参加者はどんな人々なのか藤倉善郎 (Yoshirō Fujikura) — December 30, 2020
  75. 75NewsWhy QAnon Flopped in JapanMatt Alt — March 26, 2021
  76. 76Japan's QAnon disciples aren't letting Trump's loss quash their missionEmiko Jozuka et al. — April 27, 2022
  77. 77Japanese QAnon Leader Arrested for Entering COVID-19 Vaccination Site to 'Save Kids'Hanako Montgomery — April 22, 2022
  78. 78Members tied to QAnon arrested over break-in at vaccine centerApril 7, 2022
  79. 79NewsQAnon conspiracies go global in pandemic 'perfect storm'October 6, 2020
  80. 80NewsQAnon Is Thriving in Germany. The Extreme Right Is Delighted.Katrin Bennhold — October 11, 2020
  81. 81CeMAS study: QAnon movement gains popularity in the German-speaking worldMarch 31, 2022
  82. 82Q Vadis? The spread of QAnon in the German-speaking worldJosef Holnburger et al. — March 31, 2022
  83. 83QAnon Gains Traction in RussiaFelix Light — November 30, 2020
  84. 84NewsOne in four Britons believe in QAnon-linked theories – surveyBen Quinn — October 21, 2020
  85. 85JournalQAnon in the UK: The Growth of a MovementDavid Lawrence et al. — October 2020
  86. 86NewsAffaire Mia: ce que contiennent les vidéos du complotiste Rémy Daillet-WiedemannEsther Paolini — April 20, 2021
  87. 87NewsRémy Daillet, l'homme au cœur de la « mouvance » conspirationniste impliquée dans l'enlèvement de MiaSamuel Laurent et al. — April 20, 2021
  88. 88NewsRémy Daillet, figure du complotisme, mis en examen pour « association de malfaiteurs terroriste criminelle »Lucie Soullier — October 22, 2021
  89. 89NewsSept personnes interpellées dans un dossier lié au complotiste Rémy Daillet, figure de l'ultra-droiteMarch 23, 2022
  90. 90NewsHow conspiracies like QAnon are slowly creeping into some Canadian churchesJoel Dryden — October 25, 2020
  91. 91NewsAmerica's QAnon problem is infecting Canada. What should we do about it?Emma McIntosh — October 15, 2020
  92. 92NewsHow Canada became one of the world's biggest hubs for QAnon conspiracy theoriesAdam Kovac — November 3, 2020
  93. 93NewsArmed man roamed Justin Trudeau's grounds for 13 minutes after ramming gatesLeyland Cecco — July 3, 2020
  94. 94NewsQAnon's Madness Is Turning Canadians Into Potential AssassinsJustin Ling — July 13, 2020
  95. 95NewsCorey Hurren sentenced to 6 years in prison for breaching Rideau Hall gates while armedCatharine Tunney — March 10, 2021
  96. 965G and QAnon: how conspiracy theorists steered Canada's anti-vaccine trucker protestJustin Ling — February 8, 2022
  97. 97QAnons Are Harassing People at the Whim of a Woman They Say Is Canada's QueenMack Lamoureux — June 17, 2021
  98. 98News'Queen of Canada': the rapid rise of a fringe QAnon figure sounds alarmLeyland Cecco — August 23, 2022
  99. 99Inside the QAnon Queen's Cult: 'The Abuse Was Non-Stop'Mack Lamoureux — August 23, 2022
  100. 100NewsQAnon: how the far-right cult took Australians down a 'rabbit hole' of extremismVan Badham — November 13, 2021
  101. 101MagazineThe U.S. Exported QAnon to Australia and New Zealand. Now It's Creeping Into COVID-19 Lockdown ProtestsAmy Gunia — October 1, 2020
  102. 102NewsQAnon en América Latina: cómo y por qué grupos asociados a esta polémica teoría conspirativa se han multiplicado en la regiónArturo Wallace — BBC News — August 28, 2020
  103. 103NewsPor qué se ha propagado más el movimiento QAnon en LatinoaméricaAndrés Zimbrón — August 31, 2020
  104. 104NewsQAnon, la teoría conspirativa, recluta seguidores en Costa RicaSofía Chinchilla — August 24, 2020
  105. 105News¿Qué es QAnon?Fernando Labrados — November 23, 2020
  106. 106NewsQanon: este movimiento conspirativo también te desinforma sobre la pandemiaVerifica RTVE — September 23, 2019
  107. 107NewsQAnon's coded conspiracy messages look like random typing, says analystMarrian Zhou — CNET — August 14, 2018
  108. 108NewsThe Prophecies of QAdrienne LaFrance — June 2020
  109. 109News'Follow the White Rabbit' is the most bonkers conspiracy theory you will ever readTiffany Kelly — November 21, 2017
  110. 110NewsDown the rabbit hole: how QAnon conspiracies thrive on FacebookWong Julie Carrie — June 25, 2020
  111. 111NewsHow QAnon, the conspiracy theory spawned by a Trump quip, got so big and scaryAvi Selk et al.
  112. 112MagazineThe Wizard of QWalter Kirn — June 2018
  113. 113Here is every QAnon prediction that's failed to come trueJason Reed — April 21, 2020
  114. 115QAnon, once a fringe conspiracy theory, edges into the mainstream: 'Things could get much, much worse'
  115. 116NewsUS Capitol police warn of possible militia plot to breach CongressMarch 4, 2021
  116. 117A New Wave Of 'QAnon' Activists Emerge From The Cult Of MAGAJared Holt — People for the American Way — July 9, 2018
  117. 118A Guide to QAnon, the New King of Right-Wing Conspiracy TheoriesJustin Caffier — June 12, 2018
  118. 119NewsHow 'the Storm' Became the Biggest Fake News Story of 2018Michael Edison Hayden — February 1, 2018
  119. 120The QAnon Conspiracy Is the Oldest Scam Out ThereMike Rothschild — March 19, 2018
  120. 121The bonkers Seth Rich conspiracy theory, explainedJeff Guo — May 24, 2017
  121. 122NewsHow Seth Rich's death became an Internet conspiracy theoryColleen Shalby — May 24, 2017
  122. 123NewsA conspiratorial tale of murder, with Fox News at the centerPaul Farhi — May 17, 2017
  123. 124Fox's Vulgar Coverage Of A Murdered DNC Staffer Is Nothing NewEric Boehlert — May 19, 2017
  124. 125NewsTrump támogatói között elkezdett terjedni, hogy az elnök az Egyesült Államokat irányító sátánista pedofilok ellen harcolAttila Király — August 7, 2018
  125. 126NewsFacebook Removes Far-Right Conspiracy Theory ContentPhil Muncaster — Infosecurity Group — May 7, 2020
  126. 127Conspiracy theory claims Trump is a 'secret genius who pretended to collude with Russia to defeat child sex traffickers'Michelle Goldberg — September 21, 2018
  127. 128News'We are Q': A deranged conspiracy cult leaps from the Internet to the crowd at Trump's 'MAGA' tourIsaac Stanley-Becker — August 1, 2018
  128. 129NewsConspiracy meta-theory 'The Storm' pushes the 'alternative' envelope yet againDavid Neiwert — Southern Poverty Law Center — January 17, 2018
  129. 130QAnon Conspiracy: 5 Fast Facts You Need to KnowErin Laviola — August 1, 2018
  130. 131NewsFact-checking QAnon conspiracy theories: Did J.P. Morgan sink the Titanic?Erick Trickey — August 4, 2018
  131. 132QAnon is the conspiracy theory that won't dieMatthew Rozsa — August 18, 2019
  132. 133NewsApocalypse in America: The Smell of Fascism in the pro-Trump QAnon ConspiracyAlexander Reid Ross — January 8, 2019
  133. 134QAnon explained: the antisemitic conspiracy theory gaining traction around the worldJulie Carrie Wong — August 25, 2020
  134. 135NewsHow QAnon believers became obsessed with Tom HanksKatie Dowd — February 12, 2022
  135. 136News'You don't have a 'right' to coordinate attacks': Chrissy Teigen backs Twitter's QAnon crackdownTim Elfrink — July 22, 2020
  136. 137NewsFact Check-False news article about Tom HanksAugust 5, 2021
  137. 138Fact check: Avicii, Bennington, Cornell and Bourdain were not working on a child sex trafficking documentary and did take their own livesAugust 19, 2020
  138. 139NewsFact check: False claim that celebrities' deaths linked to child sex trafficking documentaryJanuary 18, 2022
  139. 140NewsShocked by Trump's Loss, QAnon Struggles to Keep the FaithKevin Roose — November 10, 2020
  140. 141News'Q' Hasn't Posted In Six Months—But Some QAnon Followers Still Keep The FaithJack Brewster — June 8, 2021
  141. 142NewsSome QAnon followers lose hope after inaugurationBen Collins et al. — January 20, 2021
  142. 143NewsWhy QAnon Thinks Trump Will Be Inaugurated on March 4Jeff Rouner — February 10, 2021
  143. 144NewsWas Donald Trump Reinstated as President Today?Jacob Silverman — August 13, 2021
  144. 145News'Are we the sheep?': QAnon believers struggle to process Gavin Newsom recall election in CaliforniaKatie Dowd — September 13, 2021
  145. 146NewsQAnon supporters gather over theory that JFK Jr. will emerge, announce Trump to be reinstatedMarina Pitofsky — November 2, 2021
  146. 147NewsThe Dark Virality of a Hollywood Blood-Harvesting ConspiracyBrian Friedberg — July 31, 2020
  147. 148NewsThe truth about adrenochromeJosie Adams — April 7, 2020
  148. 149NewsHow QAnon Became Obsessed With 'Adrenochrome,' an Imaginary Drug Hollywood Is 'Harvesting' from KidsTarpley Hitt — August 14, 2020
  149. 150NewsQAnon: A GlossaryAnti-Defamation League — January 21, 2021
  150. 151JournalSynthesis of dl-Adrenalin-β-C14 and dl-Adrenochrome-β-C14Schayer, Richard W. — ACS Publications — 1952
  151. 152Method of synthesizing adrenochrome monoaminoguanidineGoogle Patents — 1965
  152. 153Untangling the Medical Misinformation Around AdrenochromeWalker-Journey, Jennifer — HowStuffWorks — April 14, 2021
  153. 154NewsFact check: 35,000 'malnourished' and 'caged' children were not recently rescued from tunnels by U.S. militaryReuters — June 15, 2020
  154. 155NewsQAnon Promotes Pedo-Ring Conspiracy Theories. Now They're Stealing Kids.Will Sommer — The Daily Beast — August 16, 2020
  155. 156NewsFacebook cracks down on QAnon hashtag #SaveOurChildrenRishi Iyengar — CNN — November 1, 2020
  156. 157NewsQAnon Followers Are Hijacking the #SaveTheChildren MovementKevin Roose — August 12, 2020
  157. 158NewsQAnon's 'Save the Children' morphs into popular sloganAmanda Seitz — Associated Press — October 28, 2020
  158. 159NewsFacebook is limiting distribution of 'save our children' hashtag over QAnon tiesBrian Heater et al. — October 30, 2020
  159. 160NewsWayfair: The false conspiracy about a furniture firm and child traffickingMarianna Spring — BBC News — July 15, 2020
  160. 161NewsFact check: Home goods retailer Wayfair is not involved in child sex traffickingMatthew Brown — July 22, 2020
  161. 162NewsA new phenomenon as QAnon conspiracy spreads: Nationwide #SavetheChildren ralliesBrandy Zadrozny et al. — NBC News — August 21, 2020
  162. 163NewsFar-right US cult QAnon finds a ready ear in BritainShanti Dias — September 20, 2020
  163. 164NewsFacebook, QAnon and the world's slackening grip on realityAlex Hern — November 11, 2020
  164. 165NewsIsaac Kappy, Who Appeared on 'Vanderpump Rules,' Is a Conspiracy Theory ShillHelen Holmes — August 6, 2018
  165. 166NewsQAnon's Newest Hero Is D-List 'Vanderpump Rules' Star Isaac KappyWill Sommer — August 7, 2018
  166. 167NewsHow conspiracy theorists taint the justice they seekTravis View — July 10, 2019
  167. 168NewsQAnon Joins Vigilantes at the Southern BorderMiriam Jordan — May 9, 2022
  168. 169MagazineQAnon Followers Think JFK Jr. Is Coming Back on the 4th of JulyEJ Dickson — July 3, 2019
  169. 170NewsWhy some QAnon believers think JFK Jr is still alive – and about to be vice presidentJustin Vallejo et al. — January 18, 2022
  170. 171QAnon supporters gather in downtown Dallas expecting JFK Jr. to reappearNovember 2, 2021
  171. 172NewsQanon supporters gather at JFK assassination site in belief JFK Jr will returnSravasti Dasgupta — November 23, 2021
  172. 173NewsQAnon Supporters Pack Site Of JFK Assassination In Hopes JFK Jr. (And Maybe His Dad) Will ReturnNicholas Reimann — November 22, 2021
  173. 174NewsHow a Custody Fight Plus QAnon Turned DeadlyApril 2, 2021
  174. 175Sovereign Citizens MovementSouthern Poverty Law Center
  175. 176How the far-right group 'Oath Enforcers' plans to harass political enemiesApril 6, 2021
  176. 177Sovereign Citizen Ideology Increasingly Seeping into QAnonAnti-Defamation League — January 19, 2022
  177. 178NewsChina coronavirus: Misinformation spreads online about origin and scaleBBC News — January 30, 2020
  178. 179Anti-vax activist dies of COVID-19 amid QAnon demands for ivermectinJosh K. Elliott — September 13, 2021
  179. 180NewsPopular QAnon promoter dies of COVID in CaliforniaKatie Dowd — January 9, 2022
  180. 181NewsSelf-declared 'Queen of Canada' detained by RCMP after alleged threats to health-care workersAndrew Russell et al. — December 1, 2021
  181. 182NewsCoronavirus: How a false rumour led to hate onlineJack Goodman — BBC News — June 18, 2020
  182. 183NewsHow Covid-19 myths are merging with the QAnon conspiracy theoryMarianna Spring et al. — BBC News — September 3, 2020
  183. 184News'It's almost like grooming': how anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, and the far-right came together over COVIDJames Ross — September 21, 2021
  184. 185No, drinking bleach will not ward off coronavirusSamantha Putterman — January 30, 2020
  185. 186QAnon conspiracy theorists are telling people to drink bleach as a cure against the deadly Wuhan coronavirusTom Porter — January 29, 2020
  186. 187QAnon Influencers Are Encouraging Followers to Drink Bleach to Avoid CoronavirusMatt Stieb — January 28, 2020
  187. 188Analysis: Russia and QAnon have the same false conspiracy theory about UkraineDonie O'Sullivan — March 10, 2022
  188. 189China and QAnon embrace Russian disinformation justifying war in UkraineMarch 12, 2022
  189. 190False Claims of U.S. Biowarfare Labs in Ukraine Grip QAnonJustin Ling — March 2, 2022
  190. 191Ukraine, US Biolabs, and an Ongoing Russian Disinformation CampaignFebruary 24, 2022
  191. 192British homegrown conspiracies get Beijing's stamp of approvalIsobel Cockerell — March 25, 2022
  192. 193QAnon goes to China – via RussiaElise Thomas — Institute for Strategic Dialogue — March 23, 2022
  193. 194NewsAs QAnon Falters, European Followers Flock to a Financial ConspiracyBellingcat — December 21, 2022
  194. 195NewsCalifornia dad killed his kids over QAnon and 'serpent DNA' conspiracy theories, feds claimDoha Madani et al. — NBC News — August 12, 2021
  195. 196NewsHow Q's 'Lost Drops' Undermine the QAnon MythApril 22, 2021
  196. 197NewsMichael Flynn Is Now Selling QAnon MerchWill Sommer — December 29, 2020
  197. 198NewsWho is Q Anon, the internet's most mysterious poster?Mike Rothschild — May 29, 2018
  198. 199Is the QAnon Conspiracy Actually an Artist-Designed Hoax? Here's the EvidenceBen Davis — August 8, 2018
  199. 200QAnon's Mysterious Leader 'Q' Is Actually Multiple PeopleDavid Gilbert — December 16, 2020
  200. 201Style analysis by machine learning reveals that two authors likely shared the writing of QAnon's messages at two different periods in time.December 15, 2020
  201. 202Where in the World is Q? Clues from Image MetadataAbigail W. Xavier et al. — May 10, 2021
  202. 203NewsInside QAnon, the Conspiracy Cult that's Devouring AmericaGwynedd Stuart — August 17, 2020
  203. 204A parent's guide to the secret language of internet extremistsMarch 16, 2020
  204. 205PodcastCountry of LiarsPJ Vogt — Gimlet Media — September 18, 2020
  205. 206NewsWho Is Ron Watkins, the QAnon Celebrity Running for Congress?Matt Stieb — October 28, 2021
  206. 207The men behind QAnonChris Francescani — ABC News — September 22, 2020
  207. 208Was the Identity of Q Really Just Revealed? Here's Everything We Know.Aaron Mak — September 25, 2020
  208. 209BookMediatized Fan Play: Moods, Modes and Dark Play in Networked CommunitiesLine Nybro Petersen — Routledge — 2022
  209. 210The True ThreatDonovan Farley — May 17, 2020
  210. 211InterviewFilmmaker says he potentially uncovered man behind QAnonCullen Hoback — CNN — April 6, 2021
  211. 212QAnon docuseries Q: Into the Storm has an answer on who is QOscar Gonzalez — April 5, 2021
  212. 213NewsA QAnon revelation suggests the truth of Q's identity was right there all alongDrew Harwell et al. — April 5, 2021
  213. 214NewsRon Watkins denies he is QAnon leader ahead of 'Into the Storm' HBO showEwan Palmer — March 19, 2021
  214. 215NewsWho is QAnon? Two studies help uncover the true identity of viral conspiracy movement | The IndependentJosh Marcus — February 21, 2022
  215. 216After 18-Month Hiatus, New QAnon Posts SurfaceJune 29, 2022
  216. 217NewsWhat is the QAnon conspiracy theory?Will Rahn et al. — September 29, 2020
  217. 218NewsQ-Speak: The Language of QAnonSteven Crimando — January 13, 2021
  218. 219The history of far-right populism, from the John Birch Society to TrumpismAnthony Brooks — July 13, 2022
  219. 220NewsWhat the Pizzagate conspiracy theory borrows from a bogus satanic sex panic of the 1980sRoger Lancaster — December 8, 2016
  220. 221NewsAmerica's Satanic Panic Returns — This Time Through QAnonNoah Caldwell et al. — NPR — May 18, 2021
  221. 222NewsWe're in the middle of another moral panic. What can we learn from the past?Rebecca Jennings — September 25, 2020
  222. 223Journal'Stand Against the Wiles of the Devil': Interpreting QAnon as a Pseudo-Christian Extremist MovementNicolò Miotto et al. — January 30, 2024
  223. 224QAnon, Conspiracy, and White Evangelical ApocalypseJason Springs — June 16, 2021
  224. 225NewsMichael Flynn's flying circusOctober 21, 2023
  225. 226JournalQAnon—Religious Roots, Religious ResponsesSarah Louise MacMillen — September 2022
  226. 227Demons of the deep state: how evangelicals and conspiracy theories combine in Trump's AmericaS. Jonathon O'Donnell — September 14, 2020
  227. 228Quantifying Hate: A Year of Anti-Semitism on TwitterAnti-Defamation League
  228. 229Explained: What's Anti-Semitic About QAnon, The Trump Base's Latest Pet Theory?Aiden Pink — August 1, 2018
  229. 230NewsIs QAnon, the Latest pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory, anti-Semitic?Charles Dunst — August 3, 2018
  230. 231NewsQAnon is an old form of anti-Semitism in a new package, say expertsBen Sales — September 20, 2020
  231. 232Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They're finding QAnon insteadAbby Ohlheiser — August 26, 2020
  232. 233MagazineQAnon, Blood Libel, and the Satanic PanicTalia Lavin — September 29, 2020
  233. 234NewsFact check: Sculpture is evidence of antisemitic blood libel, not false QAnon conspiracy theoryElla Lee — February 3, 2022
  234. 235NewsQAnon is an old form of anti-Semitism in a new package, experts sayBen Sales — Jewish Telegraphic Agency — September 18, 2020
  235. 236NewsThe RNC yanked a speaker who promoted an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. Trump often highlights Mary Ann Mendoza as an advocate for harsh immigration policies. She has some other strange beliefsIan Millhiser — August 25, 2020
  236. 237Mary Ann Mendoza pulled from RNC lineup after retweeting anti-Semitic QAnon conspiracyMeredith Deliso et al. — August 26, 2020
  237. 238NewsRepublican convention speaker out of lineup after retweeting anti-Semitic rant. Mary Ann Mendoza shared a thread that includes nearly every anti-Semitic trope of the last century.Matthew Choi — August 25, 2020
  238. 239Not Every QAnon Believer's an Antisemite. But There's a Lot of Overlap Between Its Adherents and Belief in a Century-Old Antisemitic HoaxJune 28, 2021
  239. 240JournalQAnon power vacuum on Telegram is being exploited by antisemitic extremists, ADL saysDan Patterson — September 24, 2021
  240. 241QAnon Is Becoming Even More AntisemiticDavid Gilbert — October 18, 2021
  241. 242Meet the Antisemitic QAnon Leader Who Led Followers to Dallas to Meet JFKDavid Gilbert — November 5, 2021
  242. 243Telegram: The Social Network Where Conspiracies MeetW. F. Thomas — February 11, 2022
  243. 244QAnon Crypto Trading Scheme Lost Investors MillionsTori Marland et al. — June 28, 2022
  244. 245Disclose.tv: Conspiracy Forum Turned Disinformation FactoryW. F. Thomas — January 12, 2022
  245. 246Disclose.TV: English disinformation made in GermanyElizabeth Schumacher — February 8, 2022
  246. 247NewsQAnon is tearing families apartTravis Andrews — October 12, 2020
  247. 248MagazineOnline Conspiracy Groups Are a Lot Like CultsRenee Diresta — November 13, 2018
  248. 249The Atlantic Daily: QAnon Is a New American ReligionCaroline Mimbs Nyce — May 14, 2020
  249. 250The Church of QAnon: Will conspiracy theories form the basis of a new religious movement?Marc-André Argentino — May 18, 2020
  250. 251NewsWhy Someone You Love Might Join QAnonMorgan Lee — September 9, 2020
  251. 252NewsCult CountryJesse Walker — May 16, 2021
  252. 253NewsAll Hail Q! The forging of a right-wing religion and its extreme threat to securityMarch 11, 2021
  253. 254NewsI understand the temptation to dismiss QAnon. Here's why we can'tAlyssa Rosenberg — April 17, 2020
  254. 255MagazineThe Flashing Warning of QAnonMatt Alt — September 26, 2020
  255. 256In QAnon-linked US candidates, populism meets conspiracyJoseph Stepansky — October 16, 2020
  256. 257Conspiracy theories, explainedAja Romano — November 18, 2020
  257. 258NewsChristmas Is the Loneliest Time for Qanon FansKelly Weill — December 23, 2018
  258. 259Jeff Sessions, the 2018 midterms, and the continued grift of QAnonMike Rothschild — November 9, 2018
  259. 260NewsLawyer: Shooter Wasn't Trying To Kill A Mob Boss. He Was Under 'QAnon' DelusionBobby Allyn — NPR — July 22, 2019
  260. 261Liz Crokin Warns of 'Vigilante Justice' if QAnon's Promised Mass Arrests Don't Happen SoonKyle Mantyla — February 4, 2019
  261. 262NewsNew poll: the QAnon conspiracy movement is very unpopularJoseph Uscinski et al. — August 30, 2018
  262. 26376% of Americans have never heard of QAnonChris Cillizza — CNN — April 1, 2020
  263. 264QAnon's conspiracy theories have seeped into U.S. politics, but most don't know what it isPew Research Center — March 30, 2020
  264. 265QAnon's conspiracy theories have seeped into U.S. politics, but most don't know what it isMarch 30, 2020
  265. 266Political Divides, Conspiracy Theories and Divergent News Sources Heading Into 2020 ElectionAmy Mitchell et al. — September 16, 2020
  266. 267NewsEven if they haven't heard of QAnon, most Trump voters believe its wild allegationsPhilip Bump — October 20, 2020
  267. 268Survey finds 3 in 10 Republicans believe QAnon child sex-trafficking theoryBen Sales — February 15, 2021
  268. 269NewsUnderstanding QAnon's Connection to American Politics, Religion, and Media ConsumptionPRRI Staff — May 27, 2021
  269. 270NewsHispanic Americans are curious about QAnon tooJune 10, 2021
  270. 271NewsBelief in QAnon has strengthened in US since Trump was voted out, study findsDavid Smith — February 24, 2022
  271. 272The Persistence of QAnon in the Post-Trump Era: An Analysis of Who Believes the ConspiraciesFebruary 24, 2022
  272. 273QAnon and the storm of the U.S. Capitol: The offline effect of online conspiracy theoriesMarc-André Argentino — January 7, 2021
  273. 274The Instagram aesthetic that made QAnon mainstreamChristophe Haubursin — October 28, 2020
  274. 275NewsHow the wellness and influencer crowd serve conspiracies to the massesMichael McGowan — February 24, 2021
  275. 276NewsWhy are QAnon believers obsessed with 4 March?March 4, 2021
  276. 277News'We All Got Played': QAnon Followers Implode After Big Moment Never ComesBrewster Jack — January 20, 2021
  277. 278QAnon in Meltdown After Biden Inauguration: 'We Need to Go Back to Our Lives'Samson Amore — January 20, 2021
  278. 279NewsQAnon believers grapple with doubt, spin new theories as Trump era endsDrew Harwell — January 20, 2021
  279. 280NewsFact check: No basis for claims that President Joe Biden's inauguration was fakedDevon Link — January 28, 2021
  280. 281NewsFact check: Biden family Bible used during his oath is historically Roman Catholic, not connected to Illuminati or Freemasons as posts claimReuters — January 27, 2021
  281. 282NewsStages of defeat: Die-hard Trump supporters range from being deflated over Biden's inauguration to believing their twice-impeached leader will be running the government as a shadow president for the next 4 yearsHaven Orecchio-Egresitz — January 20, 2021
  282. 283NewsQAnon's 'Great Awakening' failed to materialize. What's next could be worseJulia Carrie Wong — January 21, 2021
  283. 284NewsHere's why prominent conservatives now are calling QAnon a 'psyop'Claire Goforth — January 28, 2021
  284. 285NewsAfter embracing QAnon, Steve Bannon now presents the conspiracy theory as an 'FBI psyopJustin Horowitz — January 26, 2021
  285. 286News'Total Nonsense': QAnon Hero Mike Flynn Appears To Privately Disavow Movement in Leaked CallDan MacGuill — December 2, 2021
  286. 287NewsFounder of bizarre new religion targeting QAnon believers 'unmasked'March 23, 2021
  287. 288NewsUnmasked: man behind cult set to replace QAnonMarch 20, 2021
  288. 289NewsSabmyk Creator Says QAnon-Style Conspiracy Is Just a GameAnders Anglesey — 2021-04-15
  289. 290'Q' returns with first new post in 18 months for far-right QAnon conspiracy theoristsSheila Flynn — June 25, 2022
  290. 291NewsQAnon Creator 'Q' Returns After Nearly Two-Year HiatusWill Sommer — June 25, 2022
  291. 292New post from QAnon targets Cassidy HutchinsonJohn Anderson — July 1, 2022
  292. 293After 18-Month Hiatus, New QAnon Posts SurfaceAnti-Defamation League — June 29, 2022
  293. 294NewsQ Is Dead, Long Live QAnonMack Lamoureux et al. — November 15, 2022
  294. 295NewsDispatches From Q-Land: Remember When Q Returned ... And Nobody Cared?Jim Vorel — February 14, 2023
  295. 296NewsThe QAnon catchphrases that took over the Jackson hearingsDonald Moynihan — April 7, 2022
  296. 297NewsQAnon: a timeline of violence linked to the conspiracy theoryLois Beckett — October 16, 2020
  297. 298NewsQAnon accounts make a dent in voting discussion on TwitterBen Collins — NBC News — October 16, 2020
  298. 299BookFrauds, myths, and mysteries: science and pseudoscience in archaeologyKenneth L. Feder — Oxford University Press — 2025
  299. 300N.J. man indicted for QAnon defacement of America's Stonehenge in SalemJason Schreiber — April 20, 2021
  300. 301QAnon's Dominion voter fraud conspiracy theory reaches the presidentNBC News — November 13, 2020
  301. 302No, Dominion voting machines did not delete Trump votes.Jack Nicas — November 11, 2020
  302. 303NewsFact check: Evidence disproves claims of Italian conspiracy to meddle in U.S. election (known as #ItalyGate)Reuters — January 15, 2021
  303. 304NewsVatican blackout hoax linked to ItalyGate conspiracy theoryJanuary 12, 2021
  304. 305QAnon backers have a crazy new conspiracy theory about the election: Italy did itParker Molloy — January 6, 2021
  305. 306Arizona has deep QAnon ties, including its politiciansJerod MacDonald-Evoy — September 22, 2020
  306. 307Gosar, Townsend lead protests on Arizona vote-countingNovember 6, 2020
  307. 308NewsHow Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, promoter of QAnon's baseless theories, rose with support from key RepublicansMichael Kranish et al. — January 30, 2021
  308. 309Read Carpet Bagger, Election Denier, Anti-Vaxxer, QAnon Queen Sen. Kelly Townsend to Run for Congress in So. Arizona District now from Blog for Arizona for Politics from a Liberal ViewpointJanuary 17, 2022
  309. 310NewsDid Legislation Passed in 1871 Make Washington, D.C., a Foreign Entity?Kaya Himmelman — January 28, 2021
  310. 311QAnon Thinks Trump Will Become President Again on March 4David Gilbert — January 25, 2021
  311. 312Capitol Police Warn of Threat on Thursday, and House Cancels the Day's SessionZolan Kanno-Youngs et al. — March 3, 2021
  312. 313NewsExtremists intensify calls for violence ahead of Inauguration DayRob Kuznia et al. — CNN — January 8, 2021
  313. 314NewsExtremists and Mainstream Trump Supporters Plan to Protest Congressional Certification of Biden's VictoryAnti-Defamation League — January 4, 2021
  314. 315January 2021 Washington, D.C., Security Outlook: Intelligence Report, Part ThreeJanuary 4, 2021
  315. 316NewsUS Capitol: Q-Anon, Confederate flag man, and Baked Alaska – here are the people who stormed the buildingAlix Culbertson — January 8, 2021
  316. 317NewsWho were the Capitol insurrectionists?Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan et al. — January 7, 2021
  317. 318NewsQAnon supporter from Arizona dressed in fur and horns joins storming of US CapitolRichard Ruelas — January 6, 2021
  318. 319NewsPro-Trump Woman Shot and Killed at U.S. Capitol Retweeted Attorney Lin Wood's 'Must Be Done' List Before She DiedAaron Keller — January 6, 2021
  319. 320NewsWoman killed in Capitol was Trump supporter who embraced conspiracy theoriesBrandy Zadrozny et al. — NBC News — January 7, 2021
  320. 321NewsWoman killed in siege of U.S. Capitol was veteran who embraced conspiracy theoriesReuters — January 7, 2021
  321. 322NewsFacebook Removes 'Stop The Steal' Content; Twitter Suspends QAnon AccountsBrakkton Booker — January 12, 2021
  322. 323Germany arrests 25 accused of plotting coupPaul Kirby — BBC — December 7, 2022
  323. 324NewsHow conspiracy theories spread from the Internet's darkest cornersTravis View — September 18, 2018
  324. 325Operation Rescue Hypes QAnon 'Blockbuster Intel Drop' About Planned ParenthoodMiranda Blue — March 15, 2018
  325. 326Blockbuster Intel Drop Reveals Trump is Trying to 'End' Planned Parenthood – Twitter Attempts CensorshipCheryl Sullenger — Operation Rescue — March 13, 2018
  326. 327NewsДоживают ли Гавайи свои последние дни?Viktor Gamma — May 25, 2018
  327. 328Roseanne tweets support of Trump conspiracy theory, confuses TwitterDevan Cole — CNN — December 19, 2017
  328. 329NewsThe conspiracy theory behind a curious Roseanne Barr tweet, explainedDavid Weigel — March 31, 2018
  329. 330NewsRoseanne Barr faces backlash over Trump conspiracy theory tweetTohn Bowden — March 31, 2018
  330. 331NewsThe Conspiracy Theory That Says Trump Is a GeniusMichelle Goldberg — April 6, 2018
  331. 332NewsConspiracy theorist shares Oval Office photo with TrumpDavid Weigel — August 24, 2018
  332. 333Star of Mel Gibson's 'Passion of the Christ' Pushes Unhinged QAnon Conspiracy at Conservative ConferenceApril 20, 2021
  333. 334Jim Caviezel Emulates 'Braveheart' Speech to Cheering Crowd at QAnon ConventionAnders Anglesey — October 25, 2021
  334. 335Magazine25 Most Influential People on the InternetMelissa Chan — June 28, 2018
  335. 336NewsConspiracy theorist QAnon promoted, then deleted, by Hillsborough County GOPWilliam March — July 16, 2018
  336. 337NewsQAnon: Conspiracy theorists determined to expose a 'deep state' child abuse ring show up to support Trump in TampaTom Porter — August 1, 2018
  337. 338Who is 'QAnon'? Bizarre conspiracy cult leaps from web to Trump rallyHallie Jackson — August 1, 2018
  338. 339What does the conspiracy group QAnon have to do with Trump?Brian Williams — August 2, 2018
  339. 340What is QAnon?Chris Hayes — August 1, 2018
  340. 341How the false, fringe 'QAnon' conspiracy theory aims to protect TrumpJudy Woodruff — August 2, 2018
  341. 342NewsOpinion: QAnon is terrifying. This is whyMolly Roberts — August 2, 2018
  342. 343Exclusive: FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threatJana Winter — August 1, 2019
  343. 344NewsFBI memo warns QAnon poses potential terror threat: reportZack Budryk — August 1, 2019
  344. 345Bipartisan Lawmakers Introduce House Resolution Condemning QAnon 'Cult'Tommy Beer — August 25, 2020
  345. 346H.Res.1154 – Condemning QAnon and rejecting the conspiracy theories it promotes, 116th Congress (2019–2020)October 2, 2020
  346. 347NewsHouse votes to condemn baseless QAnon conspiracy theoryDonna Cassata — October 2, 2020
  347. 348NewsFalse G.O.P. Ad Prompts QAnon Death Threats Against a Democratic CongressmanCatie Edmondson — September 30, 2020
  348. 349News17 Republican Members of Congress Vote Against Condemning QAnonWill Sommer — October 2, 2020
  349. 350NewsQAnon Is Going After Members of Congress NowAaron Mak et al. — October 1, 2020
  350. 351NewsA QAnon Believer Is Running for Congress and Is Currently Unopposed in His Republican PrimaryWill Sommer — April 10, 2019
  351. 352NewsPro-Trump Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar charged with felony theftJon Swaine — July 25, 2019
  352. 353QAnon Now Has Its Very Own Super PACDavid Gilbert — March 2, 2020
  353. 354The QAnon Super PAC Was a FlopJames Walker — November 18, 2020
  354. 355NewsQAnon-promoter Marjorie Taylor Greene endorses Kelly Loeffler in Georgia Senate bidJohn Bowden — October 15, 2020
  355. 356NewsQAnon Supporter Who Made Bigoted Videos Wins Ga. Primary, Likely Heading To CongressCamila Domonoske — August 12, 2020
  356. 357Republican lawmaker slams far-right conspiracy theory QAnon. Trump's team fires backJason Lalljee — August 13, 2020
  357. 358Oregon Republican US Senate Nominee Defends Her Interest In QAnonJeff Mapes — Oregon Public Broadcasting — May 22, 2020
  358. 359The US Senate candidate who took a QAnon pledgeSara Sidner — CNN — August 22, 2020
  359. 360The QAnon Candidates Are Here. Trump Has Paved Their Way.Matthew Rosenberg et al. — July 14, 2020
  360. 361GOP Congressman Scott Tipton was defeated by right-wing primary challenger Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 3rd congressional districtGrace Panetta — July 1, 2020
  361. 362NewsWho is Lauren Boebert, the QAnon sympathizer who won a Republican primary?Joanna Walters — July 1, 2020
  362. 363NewsRepublican and QAnon supporter Lauren Boebert wins House race in ColoradoJacob Knutson — November 4, 2020
  363. 364Trump ally running for Congress believes in baseless QAnon sex-trafficking conspiracyOliver Laughland et al. — October 15, 2020
  364. 365NewsThe Republican Embrace of QAnon Goes Far Beyond TrumpMatthew Rosenberg et al. — August 20, 2020
  365. 366The Texas GOP's new slogan echoes a conspiracy group. Its chair says there's no connection.Patrick Svitek — August 21, 2020
  366. 367GOP Rep. Liz Cheney calls QAnon 'dangerous lunacyMarisa Fernandez — August 20, 2020
  367. 368Romney: Trump's refusal to disavow QAnon is part of 'alarming pattern' in politicsOrion Rummler — October 16, 2020
  368. 369'An existential threat': The Republicans calling for their party to reject QAnon conspiracy theoriesClaire Foran — April 10, 2021
  369. 370NewsWhat ever happened to QAnon?Philip Bump — April 2, 2024
  370. 371Trump has repeatedly amplified QAnon Twitter accounts. The FBI has linked the conspiracy theory to domestic terror.Alex Kaplan — Media Matters for America — August 1, 2019
  371. 372Trump isn't secretly winking at QAnon. He's retweeting its followersTina Nguyen — July 12, 2020
  372. 373QAnon-believing 'conspiracy analyst' meets Trump in the White HouseKyle Feldscher — CNN — August 25, 2018
  373. 374NewsTrump retweets a post naming the alleged whistleblowerColby Itkowitz — December 28, 2019
  374. 375NewsTrump praises QAnon conspiracists, who 'like me very much'Zeke Miller et al. — August 20, 2020
  375. 376NewsTrump says he appreciates support from followers of unfounded QAnon conspiracyKevin Breuninger — August 19, 2020
  376. 377NewsTrump Says QAnon Followers Are People Who 'Love Our Country'Katie Rogers et al. — August 20, 2020
  377. 378Trump embraces QAnon conspiracy because 'they like me'Kevin Liptak — CNN — August 20, 2020
  378. 379NewsTrump praises baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, says he appreciates support of its followersColby Itkowitz et al. — August 20, 2020
  379. 380Trump again refuses to denounce QAnonMaegan Vazquez — CNN — October 15, 2020
  380. 381NewsRather than condemn the QAnon conspiracy theory, Trump elevates its dangerous central assertionPhilip Bump — October 15, 2020
  381. 382NewsTrump openly embraces, amplifies QAnon conspiracy theoriesDavid Klepper et al. — September 16, 2022
  382. 383NewsHow a Trump soundtrack became a QAnon phenomenonIsaac Arnsdorf et al. — September 23, 2022
  383. 384NewsTrump Rally Plays Music Resembling QAnon Song, and Crowds ReactAlan Feuer et al. — September 18, 2022
  384. 385NewsPence Dismisses QAnon – But Avoids Criticizing Trump Or His Role In Pushing TheoryJack Brewster — August 21, 2020
  385. 386NewsPence denies hearing Trump embrace QAnonMatthew Choi — August 21, 2020
  386. 387QAnon Figures Share Parody Fake Emails on Mike Pence 'Conspiring' Against TrumpEwan Palmer — January 6, 2021
  387. 388NewsTrump Team Backs Away From Lin Wood After Pence TweetsAdam Rawnsley — January 1, 2021
  388. 389News'Nothing can stop what's coming': Far-right forums that fomented Capitol riots voice glee in aftermathCraig Timberg et al. — January 7, 2021
  389. 390Lin Wood—Lawyer Closely Tied To President Trump—Permanently Banned From Twitter After Claiming Capitol Siege Was 'Staged'Jack Brewster — January 7, 2021
  390. 391The Digital generalCandace Rondeaux — June 27, 2021
  391. 3923 starsAnti-Defamation League
  392. 393NewsSince Jan. 6, the pro-Trump Internet has descended into infighting over money and followersDrew Harwell — January 4, 2022
  393. 394Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos are scheduled to speak at a conference organized by a QAnon supporterDan Friedman et al. — August 13, 2019
  394. 395NewsSecret donors and Trump allies: Inside the operation to push noncitizen voting laws in Florida and other statesAmy Gardner et al. — July 21, 2019
  395. 396Michael Flynn wants a judge to allow him to travel to a conference held by a QAnon fanDan Friedman — August 16, 2019
  396. 397NewsFormer Trump aide Flynn appears to make pledge to QAnon in July 4 videoGriffin Connolly — July 5, 2020
  397. 398Michael Flynn's Lawyer Denies Ex-Trump Aide Intentionally Used QAnon SloganJacob Jarvis — July 6, 2020
  398. 399GOP Senate candidate films herself taking QAnon 'digital soldier oath'Matthew Chapman — June 27, 2020
  399. 400NewsQAnon's Wildest Moments From Their Massively Disturbing ConferenceDavid Gilbert — May 31, 2021
  400. 401NewsA QAnon Power Couple Is Behind the For God & Country Patriot RoundupJacob Vaughn — April 6, 2021
  401. 402NewsMichael Flynn's brother sues CNN for $75M over QAnon reportsThomas Moore — March 27, 2021
  402. 403NewsMichael Flynn's Family Files $75 Million Defamation Suit Against CNN Over Segment Claiming They Support QAnonRudy Takala — March 26, 2021
  403. 404NewsJudge allows Michael Flynn relatives to proceed with suit against CNNJosh Gerstein — December 16, 2021
  404. 405NewsCobb County Responds To Second Video Circulated By Lin WoodLarry Johnson — November 24, 2020
  405. 406NewsPro-Trump Lawyer Lin Wood Is Doing a Helluva Job Convincing People He's Not InsaneDavid Gilbert — January 5, 2021
  406. 407NewsJudge boots Trump attorney from Carter Page defamation suitRandall Chase — Associated Press — January 12, 2021
  407. 408NewsDel. judge blocks Lin Wood as repercussions grow for lawyers who pressed election claimsDavid Thomas — January 12, 2021
  408. 409The #MAGA Lawyer Behind Michael Flynn's Scorched-Earth Legal StrategyKeith Kloor — January 17, 2020
  409. 410Trump's Lawyer Sidney Powell Is Hardcore QAnonDavid Gilbert — November 20, 2020
  410. 411Sidney Powell is a beacon of hope to sad Qanon supportersDonie O'Sullivan — November 24, 2020
  411. 412NewsTo boost voter-fraud claims, Trump advocate Sidney Powell turns to unusual source: The longtime operator of QAnon's Internet homeDrew Harwell — December 1, 2020
  412. 413Ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell showed up to a QAnon conference in a biker vest and falsely claimed Trump could be 'reinstated' as presidentEliza Relman — May 31, 2021
  413. 414Trump Plans Meeting on Arizona Birth BillApril 7, 2011
  414. 415How Arizona became ground zero for 'birthers'
  415. 416Surprise Tea Party Patriots pack hall for Arpaio and ZulloSeptember 26, 2016
  416. 417News'Something is in those vaccines': Lawmaker says mandatory measles shots are 'Communist'Timothy Bella — March 1, 2019
  417. 418Protesting masks and racism education, the 'patriots' take on Arizona's school boardsMay 27, 2021
  418. 419Ron Watkins hopes to move from QAnon to Congress. And he needs Arizona voters to do soOctober 21, 2021
  419. 420They're Hunting Satan Amongst the Ballots in the Election 'Audit' Out in ArizonaMay 5, 2021
  420. 421Chief Deputy: Sheriff's Office Paid $250K For Informant's Secret InvestigationSeptember 25, 2015
  421. 422NewsIn the Documents: New Details About the Origins of the Arizona Senate's Discredited Election 'Audit' – American OversightJaci — March 7, 2022
  422. 423Townsend's bill would give Trump Arizona's 11 electoral votesJanuary 5, 2021
  423. 424'You want to see a temper tantrum?': Arizona Republican sides with Democrats, blocks voting billNBC News — April 23, 2021
  424. 425Ron Watkins hopes to move from QAnon to Congress. And he needs Arizona voters to do so.Jerod MacDonald-Evoy — October 21, 2021
  425. 426QAnon conspiracy theorist expelled from Arizona House over dangerous liesMSNBC — April 13, 2023
  426. 427The Far Right Is Hailing Expelled Arizona Lawmaker and QAnon Fan as a HeroDavid Gilbert — April 13, 2023
  427. 428NewsHow Kash Patel has used children's books and podcasts to promote conspiracy theoriesJude Joffe-Block et al. — December 10, 2024
  428. 429NewsKash Patel is pushing conspiracies and his brand. He's poised to help lead a Trump administrationAlan Suderman et al. — July 9, 2024
  429. 430QDrops App Redpill with ease! #QAnonJune 10, 2018
  430. 431Apple Yanks QAnon-Themed App From App Store After Reporters Notice, Still on Play Store ThoughTom McKay — July 17, 2018
  431. 432Apple Pulls Right-Wing Conspiracy QDrops App From App StoreAndrew Orr — July 17, 2018
  432. 433Apple pulls 'QDrops' from App Store, for-pay app pushed wild conspiracy theoryStephen Silver — July 17, 2018
  433. 434NewsApple, Google cashed in on Pizzagate-offshoot conspiracy appBen Collins et al. — NBC News — July 16, 2018
  434. 435After months of inaction, Google has finally removed QAnon apps that violated terms of service from its storeAlex Kaplan — Media Matters for America — May 21, 2020
  435. 436Google removes QAnon apps from Play Store for violating termsRichard Nieva — CNET — May 21, 2020
  436. 437Reddit bans popular deep state conspiracy forum for 'inciting violence'Andrew Wyrich — March 15, 2018
  437. 438How closely do Discord and Reddit work together?Julia Alexander — March 15, 2018
  438. 439Reddit's QAnon ban points to how it's tracking toxic communitiesBijan Stephen — September 12, 2018
  439. 440There's an alt-right version of everythingCaroline Sinders — September 27, 2017
  440. 441The 'alt-right' created a parallel internet. It's a holy messKevin Roose — December 11, 2018
  441. 442NewsRussian troll accounts purged by Twitter pushed Qanon and other conspiracy theoriesBen Collins et al. — NBC News — February 2, 2019
  442. 443April 2020 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior ReportMay 5, 2020
  443. 444Facebook removes accounts linked to QAnon conspiracy theoryBarbara Ortutay — Associated Press — May 5, 2020
  444. 445An Update to How We Address Movements and Organizations Tied to ViolenceAugust 19, 2020
  445. 446QAnon: Facebook takes action on conspiracy groupsOlga Robinson et al. — BBC News — August 20, 2020
  446. 447Facebook bans some, but not all, QAnon groups and accountsBarbara Ortutay — August 20, 2020
  447. 448NewsFacebook to remove all QAnon pages ahead of US electionHannah Murphy et al. — October 6, 2020
  448. 449NewsFacebook to ban QAnon-themed groups, pages and accounts in crackdownJulia Carrie Wong — October 7, 2020
  449. 450Twitter takes down 7,000 accounts linked to QAnonRishi Iyengar — CNN — July 21, 2020
  450. 451Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdownBen Collins et al. — NBC News — July 22, 2020
  451. 452Tracking Viral Misinformation Ahead of the 2020 ElectionSheera Frenkel — October 7, 2020
  452. 453Etsy to Remove All QAnon MerchandiseMichael Kan — October 7, 2020
  453. 454NewsEtsy Is Full of QAnon and Insurrection MerchKatie Way — January 13, 2021
  454. 455YouTube CEO won't say if company will ban QAnonKaya Yurieff — CNN — October 12, 2020
  455. 456NewsYouTube Cracks Down on QAnon Conspiracy Theory, Citing Offline ViolenceKevin Roose — October 15, 2020
  456. 457NewsManaging harmful conspiracy theories on YouTubeOctober 15, 2020
  457. 458NewsYouTube joins Silicon Valley peers in preelection QAnon clampdownElizabeth Dwoskin et al. — October 15, 2020
  458. 459NewsFacebook bans QAnon conspiracy theory accounts across all platformsBBC News — October 6, 2020
  459. 460NewsFacebook cracks down on QAnon hashtag #SaveOurChildrenDonie O'Sullivan et al. — CNN — October 13, 2020
  460. 461NewsTwitter suspends 70,000 accounts linked to QAnonBBC News — January 12, 2021
  461. 462NewsQAnon: TikTok blocks QAnon conspiracy theory hashtagsMarianna Spring — BBC News — July 24, 2020
  462. 463NewsFacebook and Instagram Aim to Remove All QAnon ContentDavid Cohen — October 6, 2020
  463. 464Twitter permanently removes pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood from platformRebecca Klar — January 7, 2021
  464. 465NewsTwitter bans Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell in QAnon account purgeBen Collins et al. — NBC News — January 8, 2021
  465. 466NewsQAnon learns to survive – and even thrive – after Silicon Valley's crackdownCraig Timberg et al.
  466. 467NewsParler 'free speech' app tops charts in wake of Trump defeatShayan Sardarizadeh — BBC News — November 9, 2020
  467. 468NewsWhat are Trump's QAnon Twitter mob up to now?Jack Kessler — February 11, 2021
  468. 469NewsQAnon slogans disappearing from mainstream sites, say researchersElizabeth Culliford — Reuters — May 26, 2021
  469. 470Book14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022Andrea Sipka et al. — 2022
  470. 471JournalGab, the social network that has welcomed Qanon and extremist figures, explainedTravis M. Andrews — January 11, 2021
  471. 472JournalQAnon is not Dead: New Research into Telegram Shows the Movement is Alive and WellJordan Wildon et al. — July 28, 2021
  472. 473QAnon Thinks Elon Musk Is Going to Let Them Back on TwitterDavid Gilbert — April 26, 2022
  473. 474NewsMusk Lifted Bans for Thousands on Twitter. Here's What They're Tweeting.Stuart A. Thompson — December 22, 2022
  474. 475NewsQAnon, adrift after Trump's defeat, finds new life in Elon Musk's TwitterDrew Harwell — December 15, 2022
  475. 476QAnon, racism and 'informational anarchy': Experts on how Elon Musk changed TwitterAlex Woodward — December 6, 2022
  476. 477MagazineTwitter Reinstates QAnon Kingpin Ron WatkinsNikki McCann Ramirez — January 10, 2023
  477. 478Elon Musk Joins Right-Wing Support For 'QAnon Shaman' Claiming Jan. 6 Footage 'Misleading'Ty Roush — March 11, 2023
  478. 479Elon Musk's latest project: Defending the QAnon Shaman and his role on Jan. 6Matt Binder — March 11, 2023
  479. 480QAnon is Resurgent on TwitterMay 22, 2023
  480. 481BookPastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnonMia Bloom et al. — Stanford University Press — 2021
  481. 482JournalIntroduction to the Special Issue: Losing My Religion: Evangelicalism and the Gospel of QMia Bloom et al. — 2022
  482. 483BookThe Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American FamilyJesselyn Cook — Crown Publishing Group — 2024
  483. 484JournalAmerica's Holy Trinity: How Conspiracism, Apocalypticism, and Persecution Narratives Set Us up for CrisisJulie Ingersoll — 2022
  484. 485BookThe Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of EverythingMike Rothschild — Melville House — 2021
  485. 486BookTrust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged AmericaWill Sommer — Harper — 2023

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