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began as anonymous "Q" posts on in October 2017 and migrated to /, where it grew into a global conspiracy movement; researchers and platform insiders have long pointed to administrators of those sites...
QAnon began with anonymous posts by “Q” on imageboards in October 2017, and the true identity of the original poster or posters remains unsettled; reporting and linguistic studies point to multiple pl...
Yes. A widely circulated conspiracy about elite-organized child sex trafficking is commonly known as QAnon and traces back to the 2016–2017 "Pizzagate" and later Q drops; its core claim — a global cab...
Reporting shows QAnon originated in late 2017 as anonymous posts by someone calling themself “Q” on fringe message boards, but the precise human authorship remains contested; multiple investigations a...
The Pizzagate episode and the QAnon movement produced a pattern of documented real-world harms: individual acts of violence and threats, reputational and economic damage to private people and business...
QAnon began on anonymous imageboards in 2017 and spread through a broad online ecosystem—message boards, mainstream social networks, creator platforms and fringe sites—helped by influencers, political...
The earliest known online promotions of the “Frazzledrip” conspiracy trace to early April 2018, with a Facebook post dated April 4, 2018 often cited as the first-known mention and additional screensho...
The statement "QClearance 11.5.18 Now Playing [Panic In D.C]" appears to be a short-form reference tied to QAnon-era posts from November 2018 that used the phrase and similar tags; available materials...
began as anonymous “Q” posts on fringe imageboards in 2017 and evolved into a transnational conspiracy movement that casts as a savior fighting a clandestine cabal of elites accused of horrific crimes...
Multiple journalistic and academic investigations converge on a composite answer: the earliest “drops” on are widely attributed to a 4chan moderator known as , while later, platform-based postings tha...
began as anonymous “Q” posts on fringe imageboards in October 2017 claiming insider knowledge of against a global cabal of satanic pedophiles, then ballooned into a sprawling, adaptable conspiracy mov...
Several third‑party projects and news organizations have moved quickly to index and make ’s disclosures searchable, but the public record in the provided reporting does not produce a complete director...
as a social and political movement built around a set of fabricated claims that first appeared online in October 2017 and were propagated by . Its core allegations—of a hidden cabal of Satan‑worshippi...
Social-media moderation choices — a mix of early permissiveness on anonymous and mainstream platforms, targeted removals, delayed enforcement, and later broad crackdowns — played a decisive role in bo...
began as a false interpretation of leaked and culminated in a real-world armed intrusion at a pizzeria, setting the template for later networked conspiracies; its imagery and claims were folded into w...
A small set of independent publishers and archives—most prominently Courier (via a Google Pinpoint collection) and Zeteo—published searchable copies or retained material from Justice Department releas...
QAnon borrows imagery, plots and archetypes from long-standing Hollywood myths—secret cabals, staged sets, satanic rituals and monstrous elites—to translate fiction into plausible-sounding political n...
Pizzagate began on anonymous imageboards and fringe forums and then moved into mainstream social platforms where it was amplified into millions of posts and real‑world harm — including a man firing a ...
The string "Q Anon 4.30.18 Connect/ No coincidences. #Patriots/GodSpeed" is a typical QAnon-style cryptic post from April 30, 2018 that invites followers to interpret coordinated meaning, claims immin...
QClearance 11.5.18 is not documented as an established government program; instead, . Independent reporting and archival summaries of Q’s early drops show placeholders and cryptic tags from that perio...