Name: QAnon received early boost from Russia
Uploaded: 2020-11-03T18:31:33.000Z
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Russian government backed social media accounts began amplifying the Cuban in conspiracy theory earlier than previously reported.

That's according to a Reuters analysis of Twitter archives, from suspended accounts and interviews with current and former employees.

Q and on the unfounded conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump is secretly fighting a global COBOL of child sex predators.

Launched in 2017 with anonymous Web postings from Quote Q and was amplified by YouTube videos.

Researchers said in August that Twitter archives showed Russian accounts had helped spread Cunanan in volume beginning in December 2017.

Ah, more granular review by Reuters shows Russian accounts began amplifying the movement as it started early in the previous month.

The FBI has listed the movement as a domestic terrorism threat, but it has gained traction among some Trump supporters.

Some Q and on backers were among the thousands at an open air Trump rally in western Pennsylvania on Saturday.

Like Laurie Duncan Ah, 58 year old retired volleyball coach, it's a global agenda.

Its's bring the United States in on that, and we're the last were the last obstacle to that one world order.

So, uh, the president is the man who's standing in the way of that.

You know, it's It's not as if these people hate Trump.

They hate that he's the last obstacle standing in the way to do what they wanna do.

From November 2017 on Cuban in was the single most frequent hashtag tweeted by accounts that Twitter has since identified as Russian backed, with the term used some 17,000 times, the archives contain more than 4000 accounts that Twitter suspended for spreading Russian government disinformation in 2018 and 2019 but preserved for researchers.

Ah, current Twitter executives said Russian accounts are not driving the present iteration of Cuban in which has expanded to include baseless claims about co vid 19 and other issues.

 S House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to condemn the online conspiracy theory. 

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