(Washington) The United States is controlled by occult powers that only Donald Trump will be able to counter … if he is re-elected: this conspiracy theory, propagated on social networks by the “QAnon” movement, brings together many followers, making their way into the corridors of the White House.
Posted on 23 July 2020 at 6 a.m. 47
Cyril JULIEN
France Media Agency
Twitter announced on Tuesday that it had deleted more than 7000 accounts linked to “QAnon” and will limit the circulation of content linked to its conspiracy theories, now considered by the platform as a “coordinated effort to harm”.
Born in 2017, the conspiracy movement has spread on social networks thanks to an army of “digital soldiers”, according to the center Soufan, a center for security studies, run by ex-FBI agent Ali Soufan.
It has also spread abroad, in Europe and as far as Australia.
QAnon denotes a pro-Trump nebula, which is spreading conspiracy theories online. According to its followers, the United States has been ruled for decades by the “deep state”, a secret organization bringing together senior government officials, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Rothschilds, the powerful investor George Soros, stars of Hollywood and other members of the world's elite.
They are involved in international pedophile networks and want to create a new world order in which states have given up their sovereignty in favor of this elite.
The first cryptic messages appeared in October 2017, written by a mysterious “Q”, named after a high level accreditation at US Department of Energy.
According to his supporters, Q is a mole evolving in the inner circle of the president, who has decided to reveal snippets of information about this global scheme on discussion forums like 4Chan. The information is then propagated on major social networks.
Hatred and anti-Semitism
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an American organization fighting against extremism, cited videos of the movement at the end of June “which draws on anti-Semitic hatred and rhetoric”.
This phenomenon involves very real dangers, leading the FBI to consider QAnon as a risk of “internal terrorist threat” in 2019.
An armed man, arrested in early July near the residence of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa, was an “avid consumer of conspiracies” propagated by QAnon, affirms the Soufan center.
Security experts particularly fear that its supporters will join extremist and white supremacist activists like the “Boogaloo”, anti-government activists who call for civil war.
The QAnon ideology has also spread in American politics.
“Take an oath”
Followers of the movement have shown themselves in several Donald Trump meetings, in particular by displaying posters bearing the letter Q or the movement's slogan: “Where we go one, we go all” (Where one of we go, we all go), sometimes reduced to its initials WWG1WGA.
They believe that the Republican billionaire will overcome the conspiracy of international elites and restore power to the people.
According to the organization Media Matters, 14 candidates – mostly conservatives – in the parliamentary elections in November claim.
On July 4, Mr. Trump's ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn posted a video on Twitter in which he repeats the slogan QAnon after pledging allegiance to the US constitution, accompanied by the word -hdse “Take an oath”. The video had been “liked” more than 100 00 times Thursday.
Mr. Trump's youngest son Eric also echoed part of this slogan in June, in an Instagram post he later deleted.
The president himself, who regularly qualifies the mainstream media as “Fake news”, has retweeted at least in recent months 47 times of posts from overt Q supporters, according to Media Matters.
The ADL fears that QAnon's support for Mr. Trump “perpetuates the belief that his political opponents are illegitimate enemies of humanity.”
The Soufan Center is particularly concerned that a defeat by Mr. Trump in November “encourages QAnon supporters to act of violence”.
