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Shristi Pandey

"Saying it out loud, it just sounds crazy,"- What is the QAnon conspiracy?

The very famous QAnon- a wide-ranging, unfounded conspiracy theory in the US stating that President Trump is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping pedophiles in government, business and the media is now gaining momentum in the UK, as well.


The elite Satan-worshiping pedophiles have migrated from the US, who as Trump quotes, "are the people who love our(US) country" have now managed to create a British audience for themselves through street protests and public shows. But before understanding the rise of QAnon in the UK, let's just understand how and where it all started.


QAnon came into existence - most likely as a joke or prank in October 2017 when an anonymous user put a series of posts on the message board and signed off as 'Q'. This user claimed to have a level of US security approval known as "Q clearance". The "Q" in QAnon is the individual or people composing secretive messages to the government's supporters. Q professes to have highly confidential information about the US government, with top-secret clearance within the government.


But when the word went out and rumors were fed to people, you wouldn't have expected anyone to believe, right?


They did. They certainly did.



Regardless of its odd premises, QAnon took off in online networks and quickly developed a conspiracy base in informal communities, too. For many believers, it forms the foundation of their support for President Trump. A lot many people explained QAnon to be an intricate right-wing conspiracy notion that accepts a wide scope of individuals – Democratic coalition pioneers, Hollywood elites, U.S. state government representatives – to be an aspect of a worldwide Satan-revering, child sex dealing gathering. It guarantees a large number of "deep government operatives" are engaged with the racket, for which they will be captured and rebuffed in occasion adherents call "The Storm." Frequently referenced names incorporate 2016 U.S. official competitor Hillary Clinton, previous President Barack Obama, and tycoon George Soros, among others.


Now with its reach to the British streets, some followers of a new group, Freedom for the Children UK believe in the QAnon conspiracy, bringing backlight on the movement again. Themes directly referencing QAnon were prevalent at almost all of the rallies. The ethnically diverse crowd was made up mostly of young people and women, some with their children. Though some of the protesters of the "Save our children" were highly in favor of the Pro-Trump Conspiracy, the organizers say their movement is not directly linked with QAnon. This shape-shifting nature of conspiracy fears has represented a unique test. As rumors flooded and Facebook raised the crackdown on related substance, the organization said that a few groups have been utilizing coded language to work around this, for instance alluding to Q as "cue". They likewise coordinate themselves into bunches chipping away at child safety or anti-trafficking. "QAnon informing changes rapidly and we see a network of allies assemble a group of people with one message and afterward rapidly rotate to another," Facebook said in a blogpost. QAnon's impact on the United States politics can be well understood by the fact that a QAnon supporter - or someone sympathetic to the conspiracy theory - will sit in the next US Congress.




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