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Geneva (AFP) - The mysterious "Q" behind the QAnon conspiracy movement, which was instrumental in the storming of the US Capitol, is in fact two people, according to Swiss experts. Swiss startup OrphAnalytics said it had used its algorithm-based machine-learning text analysis software, developed to detect plagiarism, to help crack the mystery behind QAnon. "There are clearly two styles characterising the QAnon messages," company chief Claude Alain Roten told AFP in an interview at his home in western Switzerland. The conspiracy movement is based on messages by "Q Clearance Patriot", who claims...
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Washington (AFP) - A Georgia woman who has promoted the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory won a seat in the US House of Representatives Tuesday, meaning the controversial and widely debunked movement will soon have a voice in Congress.Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had never run for political office before, was well ahead and projected to win her race for US House District 14, some two months after President Donald Trump hailed her as a "future Republican star."But her promotion of QAnon -- a far-right movement claiming that Trump is waging a secret war against a global liberal cult of...
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Paris (AFP) - A surge in child trafficking misinformation pushed by QAnon conspiracy theorists is stirring public panic, generating violence and interfering with official efforts to protect minors, experts warn.From the US to South Africa, AFP Fact Check has debunked claims about girls found locked in shipping containers or lured in the street with roses fitted with a location-tracking chip.A Facebook post shared one million times last month claimed 39 missing children had been found in a trailer in the US state of Georgia. In reality, they were discovered in separate locations in August as pa...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Facebook on Tuesday announced a ban on all accounts linked to the QAnon conspiracy group, as the social network tries to clamp down on misinformation ahead of the heated US presidential election.The move against QAnon at Facebook and its image-sharing platform Instagram comes as the online giant tries to avoid being used to deceive or confuse voters, as was the case during the 2016 election that put US President Donald Trump in the White House."We will remove any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content," th...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Facebook on Tuesday announced a ban on all accounts linked to the QAnon conspiracy group at the leading social network and its image-sharing community Instagram."We will remove any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content," the internet titan said in a blog post.The moves steps up Facebook's efforts to clamp down on misinformation campaigns sometimes endorsed by President Donald Trump, weeks ahead of the November 3 US election.The moves made across both Facebook and Instagram were against accounts tied to "o...
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Hong Kong (AFP) - The increasingly visible and vocal followers of QAnon promote a bewildering blend of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, worrying everyone from Facebook to the FBI.Once on the fringes of the internet and focused on US politics, the movement has seen sharp growth on mainstream social media platforms this year, prompting tech firms to tighten controls and ban QAnon followers.The movement is centred on the unsubstantiated belief that the world is run by a cabal of Satan-worshipping paedophiles. It has extended that this year to allege, without proof, that the coronavirus is a c...
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Hong Kong (AFP) - Powered by fear, anger and big tech's algorithms, the QAnon conspiracy movement has exploded from the US political fringe into the global mainstream during the pandemic.Its influence can be seen at anti-lockdown and anti-mask rallies from Los Angeles, to London, Berlin and Melbourne -- with protesters warning, without evidence, that the pandemic is a conspiracy by a cabal of satanist paedophiles who control the world.Experts say QAnon has grown sharply during the pandemic because it acted as a binding force -- mixing its core tenet with long-running conspiracy theories about ...
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