November 23, 2020, is supposed to be the day oxford word of the year is unveiled, and this year's oxford English dictionary writers say they can't pick a single word for 2020 to reflect this "unprecedented year." However, the report mentions that between October 2019 and October 2020, the use of the term QAnon ("Anonymous Q") in its corpus (corpus) increased significantly by 960%, which is remarkable.
The origin of the term stems from the first time in October 2017, an anonymous user who signed Q and claimed to have a high level of security clearance, first posted on the U.S. Web forum 4chan claiming that Hillary Clinton would be arrested. Similar posts followed that there was a "deep state" within the U.S. government that opposed U.S. President Donald Trump, and that many U.S. dignitaries, liberal showbiz stars, and Jewish entrepreneurs not only participated in pedophile crime, but also used children's blood to "maintain eternal youth." Over the past few years, the group that combined the first poster "Q" with the first four letters of the English word "Anon" has gathered a large number of fans and has become a deep-rooted and rapidly expanding destructive force in the United States.
QAnoner, a self-proclaimed "believer, believes that Trump is waging a secret war against the aforementioned devil-worshipping elite, trump is a hero and savior in the fight against evil forces, the coronavirus was created in the laboratory to block Trump's re-election, the 5G network is spreading the new crown virus, and so on.
A October 2020 cover article in Newsweek pointed out that anonymous Q spread conspiracy theory and other forms of disinformation as a means of inciting violence. Data from nonprofit research organizations shows that Trump is perhaps the group's most influential promoter, repeatedly retweeting or mentioning information about Anonymous Q on his Twitter website.
As the cnn website reported in a July 2020 report, Anonymous Q was born on the dark edge of the Internet and is now infiltrating mainstream American life and politics. In the November 3, 2020 U.S. election, Republican Marjorie Taylor Green, a public supporter of Anonymous Q, was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, providing a strong argument for this claim.
A cover article in the German weekly Der Spiegel in September quoted experts as saying that if conspiracy theories of anonymous Q are allowed to spread, national security will even be threatened by it.
While social media giants such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have taken action to crack down on Anonymous Q since mid-2020, American scholars who specialize in the group believe it is too late. How to deal with this "Anonymous Q" organization composed of Trump's "iron fans" is afraid that it will be a major challenge for the Biden administration. (Hu Li)
Source: Reference News Network