Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

Re:Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as par... by djur on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @09:17PM (#23912940)

That Chrissy Teigen was on the Epstein flight logs and involved in sexual depravity, despite being a minor at that time; that pictures Tom Hanks takes of random roadside detritus are secret signals to a worldwide network of Satanic pedophiles; that there is video of Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin sexually abusing a child and cutting off her face; that Michelle Obama was secretly assigned male at birth and should be called "Michael"; and so on.

Also, just look in the replies of any regular person who attacks QAnon claims on Twitter and you will see responses accusing them of being a pedophile, a murderer, a Satanist, and claiming that they, their families, etc. will be imprisoned or executed.

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Re:Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as par... by throwaway829 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @11:56PM (#23913782)

I've been following "Q" out of curiosity since when it started posting. Not sure if it's a pied piper op, as Wikileaks said, or something else. However I've not seen any of the things you listed as examples of hateful content. You can search all the posts yourself. "Chrissy Teigen" and "Hanks" show no results. Clinton is mentioned but none of the "cutting off her face" stuff. Where did you get these ideas? https://qposts.online/?q=Teigen&s=keyword

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Re:Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as par... by hnzix on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @02:09AM (#23914379)

I've seen this Q garbage in friends' Facebook feeds, where it is being amplified by wellness gurus of all things.

The posts are word salad fever dreams claiming certain celebs are literally satanic and practicing witchcraft and ritually murdering children.

A depressing number of people swallow it. We haven't evolved enough since Salem.

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Re:Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as par... by djur on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @04:25AM (#23915016)

"QAnon" is the community of people who subscribe to the idea that "Q" is leading them to some hidden truth. I got these ideas by seeing thousands of people identifying as QAnon followers express every one of the ideas I listed above. You just have to look at any one of those famous people's tweets to see QAnon replies baselessly accusing them of horrible things. The codeword used for the supposed Clinton video in QAnon is "frazzledrip".

The nature of "Q", or at least the current person publishing under that guise (likely Jim and/or Ron Watkins), is that they rarely make any kind of concrete claims or predictions, but they've certainly made allusions to Moloch, Satan, cannibalism, etc. when referring to political figures. It's the responsibility of "bakers" in the community to take "Q"'s "crumbs" and come to conclusions. Certainly these conclusions have been widespread in the community for years and have not been spoken against by "Q".

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