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QAnon conspiracy theory


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    • found: Work cat: Bloom, M. Pastels and pedophiles, 2021:ECIP title page (QAnon) ECIP page 6 (QAnon; baseless conspiracy theory that conceives that former President Trump is fighting a battle against a "deep-state" cabal of Democratic saboteurs who worship Satan and traffic children for sex or for their blood) ECIP page 133 (QAnon has spread around the world, with a documented following on every continent) (DLC)2021015420
    • found: Britannica WWW site, viewed April 8, 2021:under Conspiracy theory (QAnon; alleged that prominent Democrats were part of an international cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles, cannibals, and child murderers)
    • found: Wendling, M. QAnon : what is it and where did it come from? via BBC news WWW site, viewed April 8, 2021(wide-ranging and unfounded theory that says that President Trump is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping pedophiles in government, business and the media; the total list of QAnon claims is enormous--and often contradictory; began in October 2017, when an anonymous user put a series of posts on the message board 4chan; this user signed off as "Q" and claimed to have a level of US security approval known as "Q clearance")
    • found: Forrest, B. What is QAnon? : what we know about the conspiracy-theory group, via the Wall Street Journal WWW site, viewed April 8, 2021("QAnon is a far right-wing, loosely organized network and community of believers who embrace a range of unsubstantiated beliefs. These views center on the idea that a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles--mainly consisting of what they see as elitist Democrats, politicians, journalists, entertainment moguls and other institutional figures--have long controlled much of the so-called deep state government, which they say sought to undermine Mr. Trump, mostly with aid of media and entertainment outlets."; "QAnon conspiracy theory alleges that there is a battle between good and evil in which the Republican Mr. Trump is allied with the former.")
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    • 2021-04-07: new
    • 2021-08-19: revised
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