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May 28 2021
Analysis
QAnon is spreading amongst evangelicals. These pastors are trying to stop it
When Pastor James Kendall stepped on to the stage of his small church in Madera, California he knew that day's sermon was going to take him in a direction unlike most. He had seen some troubling Facebook posts from members of his congregation. God, he says, was telling him speak out and warn his flock.
"I don't like to get off track and off the Bible," Kendall said during a sermon on
CNN (Online News)Mar 17 2021
Analysis
The Organization Trying to Save QAnon Believers Is Falling Apart
When a viral video caught one of the first rioters to breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, chasing a police officer up a flight of stairs, he was wearing a QAnon T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase “Trust the plan.”
Even after he was arrested three days later and charged with six federal counts including assaulting a police officer, Doug Jensen, 41, still described himself as a QAnon “true
ViceApr 04 2024
News
▶️ Streaming guide
Here's what's new on Apple TV+, Hulu, Netflix, Max, Prime Video, Peacock and Paramount+. What we're watching: A new private detective series, another reality TV offering starring Lisa Vanderpump and a documentary explaining the birth of online communities like QAnon. My pick of the week State of play: Colin Farrell, Kirby and Amy Ryan star in this series about a private detective searching for
AxiosOct 28 2022
News
Satanic panic is making a comeback, fueled by QAnon believers and GOP influencers
On June 1, David Leavitt, the prosecuting attorney for Utah County, stood behind a lectern in his windowless Provo office before a gaggle of reporters. Wearing a gray suit and an exasperated look, he wanted to make something categorically clear: Neither he nor his wife were guilty of murdering or cannibalizing young children.
It was, by all accounts, a strange declaration from the
NBC News (Online)Feb 04 2021
Opinion
The QAnon Takeover Of The GOP Is A Fantasy Of Corporate Media And Democrats
There’s a big push right now among corporate media, Democrats, and NeverTrumpers to establish a narrative that the Republican Party is being torn apart in a bitter civil war between its establishment wing and its supposed QAnon wing. It’s about as true as your garden-variety QAnon conspiracy theory, but it’s politically useful, which is why you’re seeing it crop up all over the media right now
The FederalistDec 16 2020
News
QAnon's Mysterious Leader 'Q' Is Actually Multiple People
QAnon followers are certain that President Donald Trump won last month’s election. They are certain the pandemic is a fraud. They are certain that the Democrats are running a cannibalistic, Satanic child sex-trafficking ring. And they are certain that “the storm is coming.”
These beliefs are rooted in one single fact: that an anonymous government insider known as Q has been posting
ViceOct 08 2020
News
Facebook says it will ban QAnon across its platforms
Facebook expanded a ban on QAnon-related content on its various social platforms Tuesday, deepening a previous prohibition on QAnon-related groups that had “discussed potential violence,” according to the company.
Today’s move by Facebook to not only ban violent QAnon content but “any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon” is an escalation by the social
TechCrunchOct 02 2020
Analysis
Why did some Republicans balk at a resolution condemning QAnon?
As many Americans came to realize in recent months, QAnon is a crackpot conspiracy theory that says Donald Trump is secretly at war with nefarious forces of evil, including Democrats, Hollywood celebrities, the "deep state," cannibals, and an underground ring of Satanic pedophiles. As we've discussed, this isn't just the usual conspiratorial nonsense bubbling up from the right; it's vastly
NBC News (Online)Aug 24 2020
News
How will QAnon influence U.S. politics in 2020 and beyond?
What’s happening: Over the weekend, hundreds of Save the Children rallies were held in cities across the country. On the surface, the demonstrations appeared aimed at raising awareness of human trafficking. But many of the marches were planned and carried out by followers of a growing and dangerous conspiracy theory known as QAnon.
The core of QAnon is a belief that a high-ranking
Yahoo! The 360Aug 19 2020
News
Facebook bans some, but not all, QAnon groups, accounts
Facebook says it will restrict the right-wing conspiracy movement QAnon and will no longer recommend that users join groups supporting it, although the company isn’t banning it outright.
Facebook said Wednesday it is banning groups and accounts associated with QAnon and a variety of U.S.-based militia and anarchist groups that support violence. But the company will continue to allow
The Press-Enterprise