Qanon was backed and boosted by Russia--from Reuters:

[panader0]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-qanon-cyber/qanon-received-earlier-boost-from-russian-accounts-on-twitter-archives-show-idUSKBN27I18I

[Sanity Claws]

1. Where We Go One We All Go

The article showed that saying as a bumper sticker from Qanon.
Maybe it sounded better in the original Russian but in English it fails basic syntax.

[panader0]

2. I wonder if all of the self-styled "patriots" are aware of this.

[Eugene]

7. Cognitive dissonance for some. Some actually *thank* Russia for its interference.

The Q-nuts are holding up the Myanmar military coup as the example to follow.

[FSogol]

15. Just like "Be Best"

[Botany]

3. Of course they are .... they are doing this to stir up shit in America just like they did with ...

... the football players kneeling. St Petersburg's internet troll factory had 3 sites:

Stand for the Flag, Stand for the Troops, and Stand for the Anthem. Trump as POTUS
pimped those web sites.

[Iliyah]

4. Qanon was created and . . .

spearheaded by Russia not only in the USA but all over the world. It is the new Nazism.

[Eugene]

5. An earlier article also from Reuters...

Russian-backed organizations amplifying QAnon conspiracy theories, researchers say

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-qanon-russia/russian-backed-organizations-amplifying-qanon-conspiracy-theories-researchers-say-idUSKBN25K13T

Related DU thread: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213996086

[Hortensis]

6. Russia was there in its infancy. Dated info but new, significant confirmation.

Russia has never halted its cyber and social media warfare against the U.S. If we'd never read a single Wired article or followed any of the reference links in articles about QAnon, we'd have known they were involved because...of course. Putin wants our whole nation like Texas with the power down, to busy struggling domestically to be able to stop them.

[lagomorph777]

8. I've assumed that all along.

[blueinredohio]

9. Well, you know they would rather be Russian than a democrat.

[DonViejo]

10. Eugene posted the exact same day it was published (NOVEMBER 2, 2020 6:19 AM)...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016275541

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Divide and Conquer. Da!

[dalton99a]

13. "President Putin's emissary inspects Washington office"

[Kid Berwyn]

14. Thank Pravda for Goodnesses.

President Trump gestures to Russia's ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, as he speaks to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office on Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (Alexander Shcherbak/TASS/Getty Images)

“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job," Trump said, according to The Times. "I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off.”



Official TASS Foto — May, 2017

"I'm not under investigation," he added.

Sources:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/10/527755991/trump-meets-with-russias-lavrov-at-the-white-house-today

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-nut-job-james-comey-russia-2017-5

[dalton99a]

12. Kick

Researchers said in August that the archives showed Russian accounts had helped spread QAnon in volume beginning in December 2017, reut.rs/2TFWoWc, but that team did not examine the history of specific QAnon promoters. bit.ly/2HTReUh

A more granular review by Reuters shows Russian accounts began amplifying the movement as it started, early in the previous month.

From November 2017 on, QAnon was the single most frequent hashtag tweeted by accounts that Twitter has since identified as Russian-backed, a Reuters analysis of the archive shows, with the term used some 17,000 times.

The archives contain more than 4,000 accounts that Twitter suspended for spreading Russian government disinformation in 2018 and 2019 but preserved for researchers.

The trove shows that some of the Russian accounts tweeted about QAnon’s most important popularizer even before the anonymous figure known as Q emerged, then rewarded her with more promotion when she put videos about Q on YouTube.