More than 1 in 50 tweets about voting in the 2020 elections in August and September came from QAnon accounts, new research shows.
“The fact that one in 50 tweets about voting in the 2020 elections are coming from QAnon accounts illustrates just how far social media companies still need to go to combat this dangerous conspiracy theory,” said Daniel J. Jones, the president of Advance Democracy and a former investigator for the United States Senate and the FBI.
Advance Democracy conducted the research using the social media analytics tool Zignal, which combs the platform for tweets using specific parameters. It defined QAnon-related accounts as any account with QAnon or QAnon-specific catchphrases in the account’s bio, like #WWG1WGA, an acronym for the QAnon motto “where we go one, we go all.”
The research was conducted from Aug. 15 to Sept. 30, two months after Twitter said it would take steps to limit the reach of QAnon accounts on its platform. Still, QAnon accounts are appearing prominently on Twitter and their conspiracy theories are reaching the president. On Wednesday, Trump retweeted a false conspiracy theory from a QAnon account that former President Barack Obama had accidentally ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden’s body double, and that former Vice President Joe Biden ordered the killing of SEAL Team 6 to cover it up. Robert J.
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