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soothsayer

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Fri Sep 25, 2020, 11:05 PM Sep 2020

Urging followers to 'camouflage,' QAnon attempts to rebrand


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RosaLSmothers
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“leaders in QAnon conspiracy theory movement urging their followers to drop “QAnon” label from their conspiracy theories & simply refer to fight against a fictitious cabal of powerful baby-eating politicians w/out their increasingly problematic branding.”

Urging followers to ‘camouflage,’ QAnon attempts to rebrand
nbcnews.com
https://t.co/a3FzHRJgeB?amp=1

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Facing crackdowns from tech companies that limit the reach of their content, leaders in the QAnon conspiracy theory movement have been urging their followers to drop the “QAnon” label from their wide-ranging conspiracy theories and simply refer to their fight against a fictitious cabal of powerful baby-eating politicians without their increasingly problematic branding.

The shift in tactics comes the same week as Twitter released new data stating that their ban on QAnon-related accounts was severely limiting the reach of the conspiracy theory....

“Deploy camouflage. Drop all references re: 'Q' 'Qanon' etc. to avoid ban/termination,” the Q account wrote. “_censorship install. Algos [sniffers] bypass.”

Some high-profile QAnon influencers with hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers took their Twitter accounts down and scrubbed all mentions of QAnon in an effort to avoid a ban.

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Urging followers to 'camouflage,' QAnon attempts to rebrand (Original Post) soothsayer Sep 2020 OP
Good god...pure nutters Drum Sep 2020 #1
But HOw Will Trump Know Them? Me. Sep 2020 #2
Yeah good luck with that Javaman Sep 2020 #3
we don't have enough or appropriate adjectives - totally fucking lunatic assholes barely touches it NRaleighLiberal Sep 2020 #4
Snort. Solly Mack Sep 2020 #5
May they dissolve in their cesspool of slime... uriel1972 Sep 2020 #6
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