Tag Archives: QAnon

The Hill reports: A campaign spokesperson for President Trump took aim at a GOP congressman on Wednesday after the lawmaker dismissed the QAnon conspiracy theory in a Twitter post. Matt Wolking [photo], deputy communications director for Trump’s reelection campaign, called on Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) to publicly reject the credibility of the dossier authored by former British intelligence agent Christopher …

Mediaite reports: After President Donald Trump praised a QAnon acolyte on winning a House primary election in Georgia, a Republican congressman emphatically condemned the wacky conspiracy theory group on Wednesday. Kinzinger was almost certainly referring to Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican candidate for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, who Trump congratulated earlier in the day as “a real WINNER” and “future …

The Hill reports: Equity Prime Mortgage (EPM) filed a defamation lawsuit against the campaign of GOP congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene and Melissa Rolfe, the stepmother of Garrett Rolfe, the former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks. EPM fired Melissa Rolfe, who was their human resources director, on June 18 after she “violated company policy and created an …

NBC News reports: Marjorie Taylor Greene, a businesswoman who has expressed support for the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon and been criticized for a series of racist comments, has won the Republican nomination for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. Greene beat neurosurgeon John Cowan in a primary runoff for the open seat on Tuesday in the deep-red district in northwest Georgia, despite …

Take it away, Fox News: Marjorie Taylor Greene, a businesswoman who has expressed support for the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon and been criticized for a series of racist comments, has won the Republican nomination for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. In a series of videos unearthed just after Greene placed first in the initial June 9 Republican primary, she complains of …

CNN reports: A federal appeals court on Tuesday is considering whether former national security adviser Michael Flynn should have his case dismissed immediately because he shouldn’t have been interviewed by the FBI in the early days of the Trump administration and thus should never have pleaded guilty to lying, according to the DOJ’s reasoning. The case has had countless twists …

NBC News reports: An internal investigation by Facebook has uncovered thousands of groups and pages, with millions of members and followers, that support the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to internal company documents reviewed by NBC News. The investigation’s preliminary results, which were provided to NBC News by a Facebook employee, shed new light on the scope of activity and content …

Politico reports: House GOP leaders raced to disavow a Republican congressional candidate who made racist Facebook videos and embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory. But less than two months later, the party has done little to block Marjorie Taylor Greene from winning a seat in the House. Now, Republicans could be days away from adding their most controversial member yet to …

Reuters reports: Facebook said on Thursday it had removed one of the largest public groups devoted to the QAnon web of conspiracy theories after repeated violations of the company’s policies. The group, called Official Q/Qanon and with nearly 200,000 members, had been deleted after multiple individual postings were removed for crossing the lines on bullying and harassment, hate speech, and …

The Christian Post reports: Parler, the social media app that’s billed as a platform for free and open dialogue, said it would continue to counter “technocronyism” following Twitter’s announcement that it would be cracking down on accounts and censoring content it deems as harmful. After Twitter released a statement Tuesday saying it would be permanently banning accounts, a spokesperson for …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Jesse Watters has retracted comments he said on Saturday that seemed to praise the conspiracy theory movement known as QAnon, calling the group a “fringe platform.” In a statement provided to Mediaite by Fox News, Watters retracted those comments about QAnon, clarifying that he did not support or believe in the conspiracy theories the group …

The BBC reports: TikTok has blocked a number of hashtags related to the QAnon conspiracy theory from appearing in search results, amid concern about misinformation, the BBC has learned. It comes days after Twitter banned thousands of QAnon-related accounts. QAnon is a wide-ranging, unfounded conspiracy theory whose followers support US President Donald Trump. They believe the president is battling a …

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News host Jesse Watters says a pro-Trump, right-wing conspiracy theory movement that was deemed a terror threat by the FBI has actually “uncovered a lot of great stuff.” He spoke with Eric Trump late Saturday about Twitter’s recent crackdown on QAnon — the fringe movement blamed for playing a role in at least two murders, …

“The deep state is fighting back. The mainstream media celebrated the decision by Twitter to remove the accounts and content connected to the QAnon movement. The group’s actions were labeled as leading to offline harm, which may suggest Twitter admits the growing influence of Q in America’s social and political life. “This latest attempt to purge Q content comes right …

NBC News reports: Twitter announced Tuesday that it has begun taking sweeping actions to limit the reach of QAnon content, banning many of the conspiracy theory’s followers because of problems with harassment and misinformation. Twitter will stop recommending accounts and content related to QAnon, including material in email and follow recommendations, and it will take steps to limit circulation of …

Axios reports: The head of the New York Police Department’s second-largest police union gave a television interview Friday afternoon while sitting in front of a mug emblazoned with QAnon imagery and slogans. The mug was positioned behind Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, during a roughly seven-minute interview on Fox News. The mug behind Mullins featured the word …

Media Matters reports: Fox Nation’s newest series features actor Isaiah Washington in Isaiah Washington: Kitchen Talk. Washington is a QAnon supporter who has pushed conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic, 5G networks, Black Lives Matter, and many other topics — including Fox News executives. Washington, who had a high-profile exit from the ABC show Grey’s Anatomy in 2007 following reports …

“We know, of course, Hillary was hung by the neck on the 28th of March. I know Bill Clinton got a firing squad. A bullet in the back. He wouldn’t even face the firing squad, he’s too much of a coward, so he turned to face the wall and they shot him in the back. “There’s gonna to be a …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: “God sent me,” Angela Stanton-King, the Republican candidate in Georgia’s 5th Congressional District, claimed in a tweet Wednesday night​. Stanton–King is among the congressional candidates identified by Media Matters and news outlets as having promoted QAnon-related conspiracy theories. After authoring a series of tweets detailing ​her strident anti-LGBTQ views in March​, Stanton–King​ faced …

Jared Holt reports at Right Wing Watch: Believers of the QAnon conspiracy theory are staging an event in Jacksonville, Florida, next month coinciding with the second day of the 2020 Republican National Convention. Pro-Q personalities and followers will gather at an ice rink and indoor sports facility 11 minutes away from the RNC​ to “rock out on stage to celebrate …