

Q's often cryptic posts became known as "drops", which were later collected by aggregator apps and websites. Q soon moved to 8chan, making it QAnon's online home. Q claimed to be a high-level government official with Q clearance, who had access to classified information involving the Trump administration and its opponents in the United States. Īlthough it has its origins in older conspiracy theories, the first post by Q was in October 2017 on the anonymous imageboard website 4chan. Many also consider it antisemitic due to its strong resemblance to the antisemitic blood libel, the myth that Jews harvest the blood of children for ritual purposes. QAnon is described as antisemitic or rooted in antisemitic tropes, due to its fixation on Jewish financier George Soros and conspiracy theories about the Rothschild family, a frequent target of antisemites. presidential election to enlist Robert Mueller to join him in exposing the sex trafficking ring, and to prevent a coup d'état by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros. QAnon has also claimed that Trump stimulated the conspiracy of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. QAnon supporters have named Democratic politicians, Hollywood actors, high-ranking government officials, business tycoons, and medical experts as members of the cabal. įollowers of the conspiracy theory say that the Trump administration secretly fought the cabal of pedophiles, and would conduct mass arrests and executions of thousands of cabal members on a day known as "the Storm" or "the Event". Some experts have described QAnon as a cult. QAnon has direct roots in Pizzagate, an internet conspiracy theory that appeared one year earlier it also incorporates elements of many other theories.

President Donald Trump during his term in office. The core QAnon theory is that a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic sexual abusers of children operating a global child sex trafficking ring conspired against former U.S. Those claims have been relayed, developed and supplemented by numerous communities and influencers associated with the movement. QAnon centers on false claims made by an anonymous individual or individuals known as "Q". It originated in the American far-right political sphere in 2017. QAnon ( / ˈ k j uː ə n ɒ n/ KYOO-ə-non, / ˈ k j uː æ n ɒ n/ KYOO-a-non) is an American political conspiracy theory and political movement. QAnon flag featuring the Q logo and the movement's prominent slogan "Where we go one, we go all", at a Second Amendment rally in Richmond, Virginia, in 2020
