“QAnon is a right-wing conspiracy theory that originally formedaround the idea that President Donald Trump is leading a secret war against the “deep state””. Created by Steve Bannon as a 2020 re-election campaign strategy, using the NSA/CIA capabilities. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/qanon-groups-have-millions-members-facebook-documents-show-n1236317">https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech...
FB cross-departmental team tasked with tracking QAnon for the internal investigation say they are concerned the company will decline to ban QAnon groups outright, opting for weaker enforcement actions, according to 1 current employee (...) QAnon could influence the 2020 election.
In May, FB purged a small section of the U.S. QAnon community citing “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” whereby accounts work together to push content and obscure their own networks.

Last week removed accounts operated from https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇷🇴" title="Flagge von Rumänien" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Rumänien"> & pushed pro-Trump messages & promotion of QAnon.
When asked by a reporter if this was too early in his presidency to hold such an event, Trump replied, "Life is a campaign." As president-elect, he also launched a "victory tour" of sorts to battleground states.
The idea of a “permanent campaign” has been floating around https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten"> political circles since 1980, when Sidney Blumenthal used it as the title for a book. It was during the presidency of Clinton, whom Blumenthal advised, that the idea really came into practice. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/trump-kicks-off-his-2020-reelection-campaign-on-saturday/516909/">https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...
The “deep state conspiracy theory is for nut cases”, Bannon is quoted as saying, because “America isn’t Turkey or Egypt”. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/03/trump-steve-bannon-deep-state-conspiracy-theory">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen">
“Bannon, an ex-Goldman Sachs banker (...) became a special assistant to the chief of Naval operations at the Pentagon, earning a master’s degree in national security studies at Georgetown University at night.”
“This is a dark conspiratorial view that is being pushed by [top Trump strategist] Steve Bannon, his allies at Breitbart & some others in the conservative movement that is trying to delegitimize the opposition to Trump and pass the blame to others,” https://time.com/4692178/donald-trump-deep-state-breitbart-barack-obama/">https://time.com/4692178/d...
Peter Dale Scott - His 1993 book published by University of California Press, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, caught my attention as one of the few academic studies to frame American history in a light similar to Turkish discussions of the deep state. https://warontherocks.com/2019/02/how-the-deep-state-came-to-america-a-history/">https://warontherocks.com/2019/02/h...
Trump just applied the “hope and change” OBAMA strategy. In one word: FRAUD.
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