QAnon accounts make a dent in voting discussion on Twitter

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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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dianerocks52 If you buy Trump's 'I know nothing about QAnon', you've got to wonder... shouldn't he though?

Must be a conspiracy eh MSNBC? I urge all Americans to vote against all the unAmericans. NoDemocrats

If the MSM wasn’t crying about them constantly, I wouldn’t have known of their existence. Odd that they aren’t putting that much effort into Antifa... You know, the ‘peaceful’ folks that keep burning down and looting minority businesses. 🧐🧐🧐

QAnon’s latest act of sedition is urging American citizens to vote. Monsters.

Biden calls it outrageous that Trump doesn’t acknowledge Qanon as a terrorist group ... but Biden claims Antifa is just an idea. Can someone explain how that makes sense please?

Yet Trump refuses to acknowledge that he knows them. dRumpf who are you trying to fool - your fellow trumpsters. realDonaldTrump

Sure champ. We believe you.

I don’t know any of these “q” people.

Why are people so threatened by Q if it's just a conspiracy? The 24/7 smear campaign on Q by the controlled MSM would have you thinking that Q followers took over an American city, and tried starting a new country called CHOP/CHAZ

JUST AS ANTIFA ACCORDING TO BIDEN THEY ARE JUST A RUMOR.

“Deplorable” doesn’t begin to describe these imbeciles. QNuts HerdMentality

How does one even determine that an account is a 'QAnon' account?

Brandolini's Law.. liberal news is screwed up.

These people look like a deer in the head lights, totally clueless; No surprise why the rich get richer and these people get screwed and the GOP knows which buttons to push...😂

Its a distraction from the real news! They are busted watch !

It is assumed that you are impartial journalists. You do not publish Armenia's attacks on civilians. Babies and children are dying, you are silent. Shame on you. Ignoring terrorism is no different from a terrorist.

I would say “unbelievable.” But, this was the strategic intent and purpose of a paranoid schizophrenic platform to disseminate delusions and misconstrued facts to convince themselves that they are not mentally ill...have compassion on them, for they know not what they do.

I have over 20,000 accounts blocked. Don’t see them much anymore.

Dr. Li-Meng Yan shows the evidence in her two reports that are not long and everyone can read, the coronavirus is manufactured and spread intentionally by the Chinese Communist Party.

FoxNews charliekirk11 Fake news !

Whats up with the media's obsession with Q anon people? They are harmless! Meanwhile, we got Antifa militants murdering Trump supporters and burning down cities while waving communist flags.

Nice photo shop

America is descending into Chaos under Trump

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