When Elon Musk introduced he was buying Twitter again in April, there was one group that determined to make their method again to the platform: QAnon believers.
QAnon — the far-right, pro-Donald Trump, false conspiracy concept that asserts the previous president was in a secret struggle in opposition to a cabal of pedophile Satanists in Hollywood and the Democratic occasion — grew to become much less outstanding on Twitter after 2020 when the social media platform started cracking down on accounts selling it. A brand new report from Media Issues, a progressive nonprofit watchdog group, discovered that nearly half of the accounts discussing QAnon on Twitter in late October — the identical time Musk’s takeover of Twitter grew to become a actuality — had been created in April.
QAnon supporters see Elon Musk’s takeover as a inexperienced gentle to rejoin Twitter https://t.co/G2tNaOZybT pic.twitter.com/BSBar9FXyd
— Media Issues (@mmfa) November 2, 2022
Together with a rising variety of accounts speaking in regards to the conspiracy concept, the report additionally discovered QAnon influencers who had been banned through the crackdowns had made their method again onto the platform.
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It has been 5 years since QAnon began on the nameless imageboard 4chan. Since then, the conspiracy concept grew to some extent the place a 2022 examine discovered that one in 5 People believed in it. QAnon made massive good points in believers through the COVID-19 pandemic, main many believers to additionally change into anti-vaxxers.
Musk took over Twitter on Oct. 27 and proceeded to fireside a number of executives. Layoffs on the social media firm started on Friday.
