Miro Dittrich, a German researcher who tracks the far right in his country, watched in the first weeks of the pandemic as the marginal QAnon accounts he followed exploded in followers. One Telegram account he followed quadrupled in size in just a month, going from 20,000 followers to 80,000 followers, echoing similar lockdown-driven booms experienced by American QAnon promoters. Many of the German users seized on QAnon’s anti-Semitic themes, filling the newly popular groups with posts and memes attacking Jews.
