QAnon posts were promoted by Russia-linked accounts as early as November 2017 [View all]

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Old news, actually


"A conservative blogger named Tracy Diaz was helped by Russian-linked Twitter accounts to promote QAnon as early as November 2017, records show

Reuters
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Harriet Alexander
Monday 02 November 2020 18:57



Russian government-backed social media accounts nurtured the QAnon conspiracy theory in its infancy, earlier than previously reported, according to a new analysis by Reuters.

Donald Trump has refused to condemn the conspiracy theory, which maintains that a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles led by Hillary Clinton run child sex-trafficking rings. He has instead praised them for condemning pedophilia.


Reuters carried out a series of interviews with current and former Twitter executives and examined the archives of tweets from suspended accounts.

Researchers said in August that the archives showed Russian accounts had helped spread QAnon in volume beginning in December 2017, but that team did not examine the history of specific QAnon promoters."


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/qanon-russia-conspiracy-theory-trump-2020-election-b1536946.html%3famp


Another one , lest we lose sight of who the shit stirrers are...


"Russian troll accounts purged by Twitter pushed Qanon and other conspiracy theories"



"Feb. 2, 2019, 9:55 AM EST
By Ben Collins and Joe Murphy
A new batch of troll accounts identified by Twitter as having ties to Russia’s propaganda operation revealed an emphasis on promoting far-right conspiracy theories such as Qanon to Americans.

Twitter announced Thursday the removal of 418 accounts tied to the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency, the disinformation group whose employees were indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller last February for attempted election interference.


The accounts’ tweets featured the hashtag #MAGA, usually in support of President Donald Trump, almost 38,000 times — the most of any hashtag. #ReleaseTheMemo, a social media campaign pushed by allies of the president last year that aimed to discredit some members of the FBI, was tweeted 37,583 times.

In all, the 400-some accounts tweeted more than 900,000 tweets.

At the time, close allies of Trump brushed off suggestions that #ReleaseTheMemo, which trended on Twitter, was boosted by Russian influence. "Russian trolls have nothing to do with releasing the memo. That was a vote of the intelligence committee,” counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said last February."




https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna966091



The entire Trump "presidency" was an attack by the Russian government.