While some believers reacted to their disappointment with Q’s failed predictions by abandoning the group, others burrowed deeper into hate. Those new variations on QAnon were even uglier than the ones that had come before. A Telegram account under the name “GhostEzra,” posing as a former Trump administration official, introduced Q believers to virulently anti-Semitic memes. GhostEzra became one of the most influential QAnon accounts on Telegram, recruiting QAnon believers into a more viciously anti-Semitic version of the core conspiracy theory.
