Julia Carrie Wong, The Guardian; What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory
"Meet Q
On 28 October 2017, “Q” emerged from the primordial swamp of the
internet on the message board 4chan. In a thread called “Calm Before the
Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a
government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a
secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.
Since then, Q has continued to drop “breadcrumbs” on 4chan
and 8chan, fostering a “QAnon” community devoted to decoding Q’s
messages and understanding the real truth about, well, everything...
Imagine a mix of Pizzagate, InfoWars and the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, multiplied by the power of the internet...
For years now, YouTube has been a quagmire of conspiracy theories,
the more outrageous and thinly sourced the better. Under pressure from
the mainstream media for the platform’s tendency to promote inflammatory
and false information in the aftermath of mass shootings and other
breaking news events, YouTube has introduced reforms that it claims will promote more “authoritative” news sources.
A YouTube spokesperson provided a statement that did not directly
address the Guardian’s questions about the Hanks videos, but noted that
the company’s work to “better surface and promote news and authoritative
sources” is “still in its early stages”."
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