"I think this movement is now so mainstream and has pulled in so many people that it seems inconceivable that it will go away completely," he said.Įditor's note: Facebook and Google are among NPR's financial supporters. "When you've got people like Tucker Carlson or sitting members of the House of Representatives talking about something, it's hard to ban it," said Rothschild, the researcher. QAnon has even gained a foothold in the halls of Congress, where two Republican members have openly supported some of the movement's baseless ideas. Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently defended QAnon adherents. QAnon podcasts are available through Apple and Google. By Alexas traffic estimates placed at 29,075 position over the world, while the largest amount of its visitors comes from United States, where it takes 217,292 place. I’ve found that going from 1800 to 2500 to be the slowest growth period due to the Twitter limits (after 2000 you can only. You may notice that my follow rate has slowed over the past couple of days I’m still adding followers, but just slowly. robots and fake accounts won’t buy any books. QAnon's constant evolution presents a challenge for platforms like Twitter and Facebook in enforcing their bans by stamping out new conspiracy theories and hashtags appropriated by QAnon believers.īut even if effective, the platforms' actions can go only so far. Again, the focus is getting REAL followers. Insurrection At The Capitol: Live Updates On Far-Right Websites, Plans To Storm Capitol Were Made In Plain Sight
There, they may be exposed to more extremist content, like that of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. While some people who may be susceptible to believing the falsehoods may never see them, Smith and other researchers warn there is a cost to that success: As QAnon influencers and their followers are pushed off mainstream platforms, some are migrating to apps with fewer rules, like the alternative social network Gab and the messaging app Telegram. When NPR and Ipsos polled people about whether they believe QAnon's core false claim - that "a group of Satan-worshipping elites who run a child sex ring are trying to control our politics and media" - 17% said it was true, and another 37% said they didn't know. It's hard to quantify just how many people follow QAnon. "So in my mind, that's a pretty big success." "For me, is about not exposing new communities to that type of content," Smith said. That splintering makes it harder for harmful, even violent ideas to gain traction - and less likely that unsuspecting Twitter users will stumble across them. Graphika found that among a dense network of 14,000 QAnon-promoting Twitter accounts it has been tracking, 60% are now inactive.
The result? "There isn't one central place that people are finding information in terms of influential accounts, and it's kind of become more disparate," said Melanie Smith of the research firm Graphika.
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