This is terrible news. These people don’t believe in facts which is why they support Trump.
56% of Republicans believe QAnon is partly or mostly true. https://t.co/C1KPWZ6FT7
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 2, 2020
UPDATE: At least a 21st QAnon-supporting congressional candidate has now secured a spot on the ballot in November. Tracy Lovvorn of Massachusetts’ 2nd Congressional District has been declared the winner of the Republican primary by default. https://t.co/yM8gPNJOhq pic.twitter.com/o6sbqJLeYx
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) September 2, 2020
Qanon conspiracy theorist and so-called "firefighter prophet" Mark Taylor claims that protesters are victims of mind control who are being controlled by "handlers" carrying umbrellas. https://t.co/ahtJ89mZ1c pic.twitter.com/gO7aBW8muG
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 1, 2020
Hearing about the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon a lot lately? Same.
— Ashley Shaffer (@ashleyshafferx) August 31, 2020
So I asked @NathanBomey to tell me everything I need to know: https://t.co/7S29sm9gsS
QAnon will be mainstream GOP orthodoxy by next year https://t.co/aH82G1Ayor
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) August 31, 2020
Trump’s spasm of crazed tweets and retweets this morning—e.g., the retweet of a QAnon follower claiming CDC data really show only 6,000 COVID deaths—reeks of really frantic desperation. Did they tell him last night that their own polling showed no gains from his convention?
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 30, 2020
This headline is insane… https://t.co/IesFyU9eTp
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 29, 2020
Very excited about the future of politics. https://t.co/H1PBiiIQGY
— Matt Bors (@MattBors) August 29, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg's claim that QAnon is *just now* evolving from misinformation to violence is patently false.
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) August 28, 2020
An armed QAnon supporter blocked traffic at the Hoover Dam bridge in June 2018. The FBI called it a domestic terror threat in May 2019. https://t.co/0xpkoFE4WS pic.twitter.com/vPhzLbiXOn
7 percent favorability is low for a politician, but seems high for a 4chan-spawned gamified movement based on satanic panic, blood libel, and a promised authoritarian crackdown that will supposedly cleanse the world of evil and usher in a new utopian age. https://t.co/1vHRWSwpIV
— Travis View (@travis_view) August 28, 2020
Excellent, disturbing reporting by @onthemedia and @BrandyZadrozny on how QAnon has taken a genuine issue, child trafficking, and hijacked it in ways that hurt the cause — sometimes with the help of journalists who don't realize they are being duped. https://t.co/g6nP476JDI
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) August 27, 2020
"QAnon is batshit crazy," Lindsey Graham tells @PeterHamby. "Crazy stuff. Inspiring people to violence." https://t.co/9CYH4LVIY6
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) August 27, 2020
House lawmakers introduce bipartisan resolution to condemn "dangerous" QAnon conspiracy theory https://t.co/KmVj3zr2s3 pic.twitter.com/PcBEnRmIqy
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 26, 2020
Why Trump embraces QAnonhttps://t.co/5S6pAx563S
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) August 26, 2020
The interesting thing about the dangerous QAnon fringe conspiracy is that if Trump and the GOP would have publicly disavowed it earlier, it probably wouldn't be dominating news during the 2020 Republican National Convention.
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) August 26, 2020
Sometimes I try to process this — that a global conspiracy theory was formed bc John Podesta sent some emails about pizza — and my brain shuts down like HAL in 2001 https://t.co/9AdmGWhI2P
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 25, 2020
How will QAnon influence U.S. politics in 2020 and beyond? https://t.co/OveXK43979 pic.twitter.com/Mdzf6mrj1J
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) August 24, 2020
Crazy conspiracy theories are what you go for when you can't do your actual job https://t.co/teLfv0QaWT
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 24, 2020
.@jaketapper: "The FBI has called QAnon a domestic terror threat. Do you agree with that assessment?"
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) August 23, 2020
Acting DHS Secy Chad Wolf: "I don't have any reason to believe anything different from the FBI." #CNNSOTU
Here's an example of local TV (@WNEP, an ABC affiliate in Scranton, PA) getting duped into covering a QAnon event as a "just folks" demonstration against human trafficking. These events happened all over the country today.https://t.co/Rp309w3AkM
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) August 23, 2020
Sad! 