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What is QAnon?

2020-07-23 20:12:46, By Mike Wendling
BBC News, BBC News

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647

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18

Reading Time:
6.47 min

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Advanced

Readability:
16th or higher

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At its heart, QAnon is a wide-ranging, unfounded conspiracy theory that says that Donald Trump is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles in government, business and the media.

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Twitter has announced a crackdown on the QAnon conspiracy theory, banning thousands of accounts and blocking web addresses linking to videos and websites spreading QAnon's bizarre ideas.

QAnon believers have speculated that this fight will lead to a day of reckoning where prominent people such as Hillary Clinton will be arrested and executed.

These messages became known as "Q drops" or "breadcrumbs", often written in cryptic language peppered with slogans, pledges and pro-Trump themes.

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"Where we go one we go all", often abbreviated as "WWG1WGA!"

That's the basic story, but there are so many offshoots, detours and internal debates that the total list of QAnon claims is enormous – and often contradictory.

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