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Fox News Reporter Quotes QAnon Tweet On-Air

On the one hand, it's just a tweet. On the other, Fox News is giving voice to far-right conspiracy theorists. Again. A few days ago Trump himself retweeted another one of these QAnon @ssholes. Coincidence, or a pattern? Source: The Daily Beast A Fox News reporter cited a major promoter of QAnon on-air Friday morning, exposing the network’s viewers to the pro-Trump conspiracy theory. In a Fox & Friends First segment on Donald Trump’s new executive order on campus free speech, Fox reporter Carley Shimkus read a tweet from @QAnon76, a significant QAnon account on Twitter that has more than 160,000 followers. ... QAnon adherents believe a series of online clues posted by “Q” have exposed a secret world hidden by the “deep state.” They think that Trump is engaged in a secret war against a pedophile cult in the Democratic Party, in an echo of the earlier Pizzagate conspiracy theory. QAnon believers think Trump is about to arrest and even execute top Democrats, and much of their time is spent in online messages boards awaiting the day when Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama will face military tribunals.read more

 

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