The media is beginning to
worry that it is losing control of the Narrative
Catch up quick: QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory that alleges the
"deep state" is engaged in a global fight to take down President
Trump.
QAnon rose out of the 2016 Pizzagate conspiracy theory and has grown into a
decentralized network that analyzes cryptic prophecies dropped in remote online
forums by "Q," who claims, without ever offering evidence, to be a
Trump administration official with high-level clearance.
Q maintains President Trump is secretly fighting a child-selling cabal in the
U.S., though the conspiracy has spiraled to cover a vast array of claims, from
JFK Jr. having faked his death to help Trump behind the scenes to the
coronavirus being a hoax or a biological weapon engineered in either case by
sinister elites.
By the numbers: Conspiracy theories tied to QAnon are growing more
popular.
There was more than 10 times as much Google search interest in QAnon in
mid-July than in mid-January, according to Google Trends data.
QAnon pages and groups on Facebook had nearly 10 times more likes at the end of
last month than they did last July, according to data tracked by the Atlantic
Council and shared with Axios.
There has been a 190% increase in the daily average number of tweets with
popular QAnon hashtags since March as compared to the seven months prior,
according to data from GroupSense provided to Axios.
