Some links to Q-related items today
AdvertisementTrump is threatening to eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines via executive order pic.twitter.com/lC6YSVqrF5
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) August 18, 2025
Trump is willing to cut Medicaid but not his golf trips pic.twitter.com/zMjMq6GLXO
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) August 18, 2025
Grok here nonchalantly endorsing the baseless conspiracy theory that the man President Trump met in Alaska on Friday was not Vladimir Putin, but his "body double".
How much more evidence is needed before we realise that AI chatbots aren't reliable tools to fact-check news? https://t.co/IvTl21ZxFP
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) August 17, 2025
In case you needed further evidence about the perils of using Grok as a fact checker, some QAnon followers coaxed Grok into erroneously saying “Q defies dismissal as a mere LARP” and “Q is real.”
Grok seems better at giving people answers they want to hear instead of the truth. pic.twitter.com/e3TLskKebr
— Travis View (@travis_view) August 17, 2025
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
— derek guy (@dieworkwear) August 18, 2025
The Bela Bake has begun. pic.twitter.com/FlU0tsTHIP
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) August 18, 2025
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 August 18, 2025 at 08:00
