/comms/ - COMMS

>>26526

QAnon is NOT a "domestic terror threat": Unraveling the tangled web of MSM lies

MSM continues to try to portray Q as a dangerous far-right organization and to spread the lie that QAnon had been officially designated by the FBI as a "domestic terror threat." Made easier by the FBI's usual cannot-confirm-or-deny stance, there's an abundance of evidence to say that it has NEVER designated Qanon as a domestic terrorist threat - most recently, from the House testimony of Chris Wray on 9-17-2020 (see NEW post below).

TIMELINE:

- On 4-27-19, Poway shooter emulates Christchurch shooter, also posting on 8chan's /pol/ thread. Fuels MSM's efforts to say 8chan radicalizes posters.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2019/04/28/ignore-the-poway-synagogue-shooters-manifesto-pay-attention-to-8chans-pol-board/

- One result: FBI investigates 8chan, there are subsequent posts on this in /qr/ (see CAP 2)

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-16/watch-out-8chan-fbi-issued-search-warrant-anyone-who-commented-poway-synagogue

https://www.thedailybeast.com/poway-synagogue-shooting-8chan-served-search-warrant-for-alleged-shooters-posts-data-on-other-users

- FBI purportedly publishes an intel bulletin from Phoenix field office on 5-30-19 on domestic extremists, mentioning QAnon but not specifically designating it in any way. Jana Winter's posts an 8-1-19 Yahoo article on this previously unreported bulletin which mentions QAnon a lot, in an effort to link it (& POTUS) with domestic terrorism.

https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-documents-conspiracy-theories-terrorism-160000507.html

"Although the memo lists a number of such theories, including Pizzagate and the conspiracy surrounding the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, it pays particular notice to QAnon…"

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fbi-declared-qanon-domestic-terrorism-181448533.html

(Notice btw the category: "entertainment")

- The Yahoo article embraces this idea with a vengeance, either stating that QAnon was designated as a domestic terror threat or implying it very strongly, e.g. :

* Rolling Stone: "An internal FBI memoclassified QAnon and other conspiracy theories as a threat…"

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/qanon-domestic-terrorism-threat-conspiracy-theory-866288/

* Huffpo: "it was recently reported that the FBIhas classed QAnon as a domestic terror threat."

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/what-is-qanon_uk_5d4c2cb1e4b09e72974283be?guccounter=1

* Media Matters: "The QAnon conspiracy theory has been tied to acts of violence, used by anti-government groups, and was flagged as apotential domestic terror threatby the FBI."

https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/fbi-calls-qanon-domestic-terror-threat-trump-has-amplified-qanon-supporters-twitter-more-20

* NYT: "In its intelligence bulletin identifying QAnon as apotential domestic terror threat, the F.B.I….."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/us/politics/qanon-trump-conspiracy-theory.html

(etc., etc.)

- MANY of these claims are published just after 8chan is deplatformed - and so cannot be countered by qresearch investigators. (Coincidence??)

- This claim is revived recently after MSM bugged POTUS about his opinion on QAnon and he refused to condemn it. This time, ''anons dig - and find evidence suggesting not only that QAnon had never been designated by the FBI as a domestic terror org (FBI cannot make this designation) but that the whole Yahoo story may have been a Yahoo in-house fabrication (something Praying Medic suspected all along).

(see all CAPS)

NEW: Chris Wray testimony before the House on 9-17-2020

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4907402/user-clip-fbi-director-christopher-wray-qanon-3-factor-test

- It's likely that the MSM will continue to toss out this FALSE CLAIM - which could be extremely damaging to POTUS. This is why it continues to be an extremely important and ongoin DIG which should probably remain as a global notable (so all anons are up on this fake news & new updates can be added as needed).

Note: In the initial Global note, an anon put forth the idea that a Soros-based organization, the Reiss Center, was behind the falsified FBI bulletin, but when i tracked down the sauce, found nothing (so far) that ties it to Kelly Reed Grant. If anons can find such a link, can be added back in. See >>10394582 in qresear.ch.

CAPS:

1 - first Global post showing that FBI bulletin was probably never designated by FBI as a domestic terrorist threat

2 - updated Global post with moar evidence

3 - Digg on Kelly Reed Grant (did she fabricate a fake FBI intelligence report?)

4 - Jake Tapper currently pushing the anti-Q narrative hard

5 - PM on Grant's uploaded Scrib'd "FBI" doc & a similar doc; both contain same scanning irregularities

DIGG IS ONGOING

PLEASE POST ANYTHING ELSE THAT SHOULD BE ADDED

Previous global notable:

>>10430503, >>10432390 FBI Confirms QAnon Group Not A Terrorist Threat. Source Info: >>10394806, >>10430534

''New info and dig leads added"

>>26528

Here's some additional stuff that may or may not be added.

Cap - Wray testimony

Cap - Canadian article saying that Q is now considered a domestic terrorist org by the FBI

Cap - mp4 showing that Qanon is not listed in FBI database as a domestic terrorist org

Got more anyone?

Twitter tightens account security for political candidates ahead of US election

Natasha Lomas

12:30 pm PDT•September 17, 2020

Twitter is taking steps to tighten account security for a range of users ahead of the US presidential election, including by requiring the use of strong passwords.

“We’re taking the additional step of proactively implementing account security measures for a designated group of high-profile, election-related Twitter accounts in the US. Starting today, these accounts will be informed via an in-app notification from Twitter of some of the initial account security measures we will be requiring or strongly recommending going forward,” it said in a blog post announcing the pre-emptive step.

Last month Twitter said it would be dialling up efforts to combat misinformation and election interference, as well as pledging to help get out the vote — going on to out an election hub to help voters navigate the 2020 poll earlier this week.

Its latest election-focused security move follows an embarrassing account hack incident in July which saw scores of verified users’ accounts accessed and used to tweet out a cryptocurrency scam.

Clearly, Twitter won’t want a politically-flavored repeat of that.

Twitter said accounts that will be required to take steps to tighten their security are:

- US Executive Branch and Congress

- US Governors and Secretaries of State

- Presidential campaigns, political parties and candidates with Twitter Election Labels running for US House, US Senate, or Governor

- Major US news outlets and political journalists

As well as requiring users in these categories to have a strong password — prompting those without one to update it next time they log in — Twitter said it will also enable Password reset protection for the accounts by default.

“This is a setting that helps prevent unauthorized password changes by requiring an account to confirm its email address or phone number to initiate a password reset,” it noted.

It will also encourage the target types of users to enable Two-factor authentication (2FA) as a further measure to bolster against unauthorized logins. Although it will not be requiring 2FA be switched on.

The platform also said it would be implementing extra layers of what it called “proactive internal security safeguards” for the aforementioned accounts, including:

- More sophisticated detections and alerts to help us, and account holders, respond rapidly to suspicious activity

- Increased login defenses to prevent malicious account takeover attempts

- Expedited account recovery support to ensure account security issues are resolved quickly

Also today, Twitter released more detail about how its platform manipulation and spam policies apply to groups seeking to coordinate to cause harm, giving the example of the conspiracy group QAnon. It began a crack down on the conspiracy group in July, when it banned thousands of accounts that had been spreading baseless BS which Twitter said had “the potential to lead to offline harm”.–

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/17/twitter-tightens-account-security-for-political-candidates-ahead-of-us-election/

Here it is, anons - exactly what Q warned us above in recent posts.

>>26533

MSM Articles on Q and 8chan: ~2000 articles as of July 2 2020

PAGE 1 OF 3

FINAL REPORT

ROOTS of the "MSM on Q" Project_

In the fall of 2018, this anon started digging on what had been written about Q by the MSM. Found some posts in qresear.ch, but nothing systematic. In Jan 2019, posted the first of 12 reports detailing articles on Q: what was said, who was saying it, and which publications were most active. That first report detailed over 300 articles where Q was the main focus (not just mentioned in passing). Now there are 2000 in the database and many more not documented here, because I limited the search to English articles published either in the US, Canada or England. In the beginning, I seldom ran across foreign language articles. This dramatically changed after the ChristChurch mass shooting in March 2019. Now there are articles on Q from all over the globe in many different languages. As with American MSM pubs, these were - and are - full of derogatory claims, mostly unsubstantiated. During the first half of 2018, the aim was to write Q off as a larp. But on Aug 1 2018, the forces behind the MSM launched a nationwide war against Q, trying to create the impression of Q and those of follow Q as right-wing white supremicists capable of violent acts. After Christchurch, they tried to link Q with 8chan, despite the fact that shooters who posted manifestos on 8chan never posted on /qresearch.

When Q generated a long MSM list Q #2018 (Feb 2019), I used that as a guide, but also added Right Wing Watch and Media Matters. There are some MSM videos included, since that's the format favored by the Big Three networks: ABC, NBC and CBS. But only a few tweets, because the object was to track (supposedly) substantive material. Did include as an add-on one extremely important twitter thread by Praying Medic, where he tore apart the highly specious but widely cited claim by Yahoo Fake News in late July 2019 that one FBI branch had designated Q group as domestic terrorists (search on "praying medic" to find it in the article PDF's).

This is the LAST REPORT re MSM articles on Q

This is a good stopping point for several reasons. First, the number of articles continues to grow, making the project increasingy unwieldy for a single anon w/no staff. Second, the technical limits of MS-Word are almost exceeded; the file is becoming highly unstable. Third - and most importantly - the three original goals have now been achieved. Anons now know a lot more about who is writing, what they're saying, and which pubs who are pushing the MSM narrative the hardest (Wapo is the obvious leader with 150 articles; see below). We also know their tactics and how they have changed over time. But the most important thing we know is this: although they have been engaged in major league mudslinging since the very start, very little of it has stuck. Q is more popular now than ever, while the MSM's reputation continues to slide into oblivion. This anon will continue to track key MSM trends. Just won't be generating this kind of raw data.

TRENDS April-June 2020

From Jan to March 2020, the MSM articles on Q were pretty scatter-shot. By mid-March, the MSM started pushing fear porn very hard as part of their effort to unseat the current President. In April and May, they pushed Covid-19 to an extreme and derided Q's pushback on that narrative by characterizing Q followers as nut jobs bent on endangering the public by providing "misinfo" on the virus and related topics (vaxxing, HCQ, masks, projected cases/deaths). Of course, the exact opposite is true: it's the MSM that's been ruthlessly hyping Covid-19 disinfo.

Since George Floyd's death in late May, the press has pushed the fake boogaloo narrative in an effort to show that the violent activity during "protests" was from the right, not the left. Favorite tactic: juxtaposing Q and boogaloo hoping readers will think they are associated. Once the election primaries picked up in May, they tried to blackball any Q-endorsing candidate. In the past, they were able to get people fired simply by doxxing them as Q followers. This time around, several MSM targets won their primaries despite tons of negative PR.

See attached pages for CAPS, PDF's and other details.

>>26534

MSM Articles on Q and 8chan thru July 3 2020

PAGE 2 of 3

CAPS & PDFs

* Article timeline (3 total: whole timeline plus halves for easier reading)

* Total number of MSM platforms in descending order

* BIG 9 Authors by MSM media platform

* PDFs:

2000 articles by DATE: https://www.keepandshare.com/doc23/110467/2000-msm-articles-about-q-july-3-2020-by-date-pdf-1-9-meg

2000 articles by AUTHOR: https://www.keepandshare.com/doc23/110465/2000-msm-articles-about-q-july-3-2020-by-author-pdf-1-8-meg

2000 articles by PUB: https://www.keepandshare.com/doc23/110466/2000-msm-articles-about-q-july-3-2020-by-pub-pdf-1-8-meg

JOURNOS with 7+ MSM articles on Q/8chan

35+ Mike Rothschild (43), Alex Kaplan (42), Will Sommer (40), Jared Holt (40), Kyle Mantyla (40), Ben Collins (35)

12+ Brandy Zadrozny (18), Kelly Weill (16), David Covucci (15), Ali Breland (13), Drew Harwell (12), Tom Porter (12)

7+ Emily Birnbaum (11), Abby Ohlheiser (11), E J Dickson (11), Ryan Broderick (10), April Glaser (9), Adi Robertson (10), David Gilbert (10), Casey Newton (10), Jessyln Cook (8),

Philip Bump (7), John Bowden (7), Travis View (7), Kevin Roose (7), Eric Hananoki (7), Jane Coaston (7)

MSM publications with articles on Q/8chan

80+ WAPO (150), DAILYDOT (94), RWW (89)

50+ MEDIA MATTERS (77), NBC (75), NYT (70), DAILYBEAST (60), THEHILL (52), NEWSWEEK (52), UK-GUARDIAN (50)

30+ SALON (46), BUZZFEED (38), , VICE (41), ABC (40), HUFFPO (41), THEVERGE (36), CNN (31)

20+ ROLLINGSTONE (26), BUSINSDR (26), POLITICO (26), BREITBART (25), VOX (24), CBS (20),

10+ UK-BBC (19), SLATE (18), FOX (17), WIRED (17), NY-MAG (15), UK-SUN (15), SEATTLE TIMES (15), NPR (15), SPLC (14), MOTHER JONES (13), MASHABLE (13),

CBS (13), WSJ (12), ATLANTIC (12), UK-INDEP (12), YAHOO (12), TIME (11), WSJ (11)

APRIL 2020 THEMES in rough time order

* Q mom charged w/kidnapping her kids

* Q corona conspiracies

* Q linked to scary Boogaloo Boys

* Q misinfo = health threat

* Q's blame Gates for corona pandemic

MAY 2020 themes

* FB removes q accounts/others that promote "conspiracies"

* John Ratcliffe follows Q

* Q's are ignorant anti-vaxxers

* Vincent Fusca for congress

* Q is a new [cult] religion

* Q candidates are running for office (Jo Rae Perkins, etc.)

* Q movement is growing

* Q apps kicked out of Google Play

* Hilary Duff accusations

* Q's think that Fauci = DS plant (true!)

* George Floyd violence if from rightwing agitators/infiltrators_

JUNE 2020 themes

* Nothing can stop what is coming (influential Atlantic article)

* Praying Medic's new Roku channel banned

* Watter's baseless speculations re Floyd's death

* Lauren Boebert defeats incumbent in primary [ha-ha-ha - this is huge]

* Teens on tiktok troll Q

* Maher: Q's are rioting

* Policemen linked to "extremist group"

* Marjorie Taylor Green running in Georgia

* More boogaloo

* House Repubs condemn Q candidates (probably forced by MSM)

* Eric Trump promotes Q conspiracy

* Q is becoming more mainstream [so sad!]

* Trump at Mt Rushmore

just added to CAPS: comparison of article timeline with twitter trends re "Qanon"

Q 4741 on Media Attacks on Q in the Last Week

4741Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6ID:6ef431

Sep 22nd 2020, 02:03:33 (EST)

https://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-facebook-criticism-qanon-posts-kara-swisher-2020-9

[past 7 days]

https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=qanon&qft=interval%3d%228%22&form=PTFTNR

Have you ever witnessed a full-blown international mainstream media constant [barrage] [counter]attack re: a 'conspiracy'?

Simple logic answers the question.

Q

Pelosi attacks FB for tolerating Q:

Nancy Pelosi wonders how top Facebook employees can 'look themselves in the mirror' because they 'make money off of poison'

Sept 21 2020

…

In the interview, Swisher brought up QAnon, the far-right conspiracy-theory movement popular among some of President Donald Trump's supporters that claims a group of society's elite, including leaders in the Democratic party, are conspiring to commit a variety of heinous crimes such as child sex trafficking.

While QAnon is said to have originated on the anonymous online message board 4chan, in recent months the posts have become more widespread on mainstream social-media sites like Twitter and Facebook. Both companies have announced plans to crack down on QAnon accounts.

…

https://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-facebook-criticism-qanon-posts-kara-swisher-2020-9

The QAnon phenomenon as a symptom

Bhavi Mandalia by Bhavi Mandalia September 28, 2020 in World

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A man holds up a QAnon sign at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on February 21.PATRICK T. FALLON / Reuters

In the era of transparency, in which any conjecture can be dismantled in five minutes, the logical thing would be for a theory as far-fetched as QAnon’s to starve to death shortly after being launched, or at best to live in minority sinks of eccentric antisystems. . But the logic of the Internet leads just the opposite. That the most unusual of conspiracy theories can spread and cross borders to reach millions of followers in a short time. And also in a short time to be in a position to influence something as decisive as the next elections may be …

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https://pledgetimes.com/the-qanon-phenomenon-as-a-symptom/

'''QAnon Is Growing In South Africa

28 Sep 2020 by Jasmine Stone in America, Lifestyle, Politics, South Africa'''

Read more: https://www.2oceansvibe.com/2020/09/28/qanon-is-growing-in-south-africa/#ixzz6ZLTQPYtB

https://www.2oceansvibe.com/2020/09/28/qanon-is-growing-in-south-africa/

QAnon Goes to Washington Twenty-four followers of the grotesque

conspiracy theory are running for Congress in November.

Where does this end?

By Simon van Zuylen-Wood

POLITICS 7:00 A.M.

Late 2017. Marjorie Taylor Greene,the 43-year-old founder of a CrossFit gym in a wealthy Atlanta suburb, hops onto Facebook Live, where she will discuss Moloch, the pagan idol of child sacrifice. Greene is wearing a black top, her blonde hair down. Filming before a blank wall, she looks tired but happy, in her element. “Okay, now,” she says in a pleasant drawl, “have you guys been following 4chan, Q, any of that stuff? Anybody? I’m going to watch for your comments here.” The anonymous persona Q, purportedly a government mole, had begun posting on the right-wing message board 4chan in late October, about a month before Greene’s livestream. Q’s posts formed the nucleus of a collective belief system that became known as QAnon, whose premise was this: Hollywood and the U.S. government were teeming with pedophiles and demon worshippers, whom Donald Trump was trying to bring to justice with the help of unlikely allies such as Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whose investigation of the president was, in fact, a false-flag operation. To anyone who found this idea implausible, Q had posed a question: Why would a famous billionaire give up his charmed life to run for president? Was it, perhaps, because “he could not stomach the thought of mass murders occurring to satisfy Moloch?”

In her livestream, Greene vouches for Q. “He’s posted many things that seem to verify that he is the real deal,” she says. “It’s not just someone poking in the dark, messing with people.” She cites a suspect 2009 email, published by WikiLeaks, in which a State Department official expressed hope that a U.S.-brokered peace accord in Honduras was close to fruition. The official wrote, “With fingers crossed, the old rabbit’s foot out of the box in the attic, I will be sacrificing a chicken in the backyard to Moloch.” His email was forwarded to Hillary Clinton, then secretary of State. “If that’s not evidence that there’s Satan worship in our government,” Greene asks, “and if Hillary Clinton was not involved in it, then why would someone, someone that is involved in worshipping Satan, why would they tell Hillary that in an email? I mean, if someone told me that in an email, I would freak out.” She cites another WikiLeaks email, from 2015, in which the artist Marina Abramovic invited Clinton’s chief of staff, John Podesta, to a “Spirit Cooking Dinner.” (Podesta did not attend.)

Greene looks revved up, if unsurprised, by the allegations. As a contributor to a now-defunct website called American Truth Seekers, she had already raised questions about demonic behavior in the ranks of the elite, citing Georgetown hostess Sally Quinn’s habit of “hexing” her enemies, the Clintons’ presence at a voodoo ceremony during a 1975 trip to Haiti, alleged child sex abuse by a former mayor of Seattle, the Anthony Weiner scandal, and Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs. “There’s so much that goes on in our American culture that keeps us distracted,” she says. “So many Americans are blind, and when they hear these stories about pedophiles and they hear these stories about satanic worship, they don’t want to believe it’s true.”

Or … maybe they do. In August, Greene won the primary election in Georgia’s staunchly Republican 14th Congressional District, all but guaranteeing her a victory in November and a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives (when her Democratic opponent dropped out earlier this month, it made victory even more certain). You’d like to think it’s a fluke that a well-off mother of three with no political experience discovered a weird-ass message board, got engrossed in a lurid conspiracy theory, beat out eight rivals for a congressional seat, and became a far-right folk hero. But 81 so-called QAnon candidates ran for the Senate or the House this year, according to a master list maintained by Alex Kaplan of the liberal site Media Matters. With primary season over and a bunch of candidates culled, the list is now finalized: There will be 24 QAnon candidates on the federal ballot in November — 22 of them Republicans and two Democrats. And while Greene is by far the most prominent of them, and the likeliest to win, she looks less like an outlier than like the vanguard of a new faction in American politics, heralding an even worse partisan epistemological muddle than the one the country has become distressingly accustomed to over the past decade. As any Q disciple can tell you, there’s no such thing as a fluke.

MUCH MUCH MORE AT LINK:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/qanon-republican-party-congress.html