As QAnon established its recruiting methods on YouTube and Facebook, Twitter became the place where QAnon went to inflict pain on the outside world. In Twitter’s information free-for-all, QAnon believers were able to blend in and push their ideas. Some pro-Q figures amassed hundreds of thousands of followers on the site, decoding Q’s posts and connecting current events to their vision of the world. Because of the size of the QAnon community on Twitter, its accounts could easily dominate the site’s “Trending” page, putting QAnon hashtags in front of millions of people. People working in
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