Some links to Q-related items today…
Want to expose yourself to a lethal virus? Q patriots have your back.
The downside of erasing online disinfo: Losing that history of hate.
Got a few words in this piece lamenting over the fact that researchers lose access to the digital history of far-right movements like QAnon when social media make the (correct, usually) choice to moderate against themhttps://t.co/Lms2aHYIGo
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) October 28, 2021
Reporters get an earful.
I’ve now been sent several anti-vaccine legal papers at work – accusing me of killing people with my reporting on the antivaxx movement.
These papers are being sent to other journalists, teachers, doctors.
An evolution in tactics from committed activists moving offline. pic.twitter.com/yognuorDWH
— Marianna Spring (@mariannaspring) October 28, 2021
Veritas and QAnon, playing footsie.
Wrote about Project Veritas attending & speaking at the QAnon Las Vegas conference. An overlooked comment at the event: one of the Veritas anti-vax "whistleblowers" said at the event that her friends who follow QAnon influencers are who led her to Veritas. https://t.co/sEMCaBhLyJ
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) October 28, 2021
When election officials go bad.
A sampling of QAnon memes and slogans posted to FB by a Michigan clerk who had her election authority stripped after refusing maintenance on what is now a missing voting machine: https://t.co/zc9KcJmX4W pic.twitter.com/Ne4i8Cpe2B
— Jonathan Oosting (@jonathanoosting) October 28, 2021
Looking for some background on the QAnon movement? We recommend Travis View’s excellent article at New York magazine as a place to start.
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Posted by Tony Ortega on October 29, 2021 at 08:00
