Alex Kaplan
@AlKapDC
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Senior Researcher @mmfa, focusing on social media misinfo/disinfo & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to [email protected]
Joined November 2015
My "Beyond 'Q'" series is now complete. I hope it will be considered a comprehensive review of how QAnon evolved after Q & continued to cause harm. If you have time, I truly hope you are able to read all 3 parts.
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In a new podcast interview, Matthew Webler, a QAnon-supporting January 6 participant, said that he "was involved with" QAnon figure Ron Watkins' 2020 "Dominion watch stuff ... down here in Georgia." (Webler also claimed he "was actually part of some of Sidney Powell's lawsuits.")
Ron Watkins, admin of the QAnon site 8kun, has spent the last few hours encouraging his followers to go "stake out" voting locations in Georgia. He's rewarding them with the endorphin rush of fleeting QAnon fame. Just in case anyone might be interested @GovKemp @ga_dps
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Lara Logan has now explicitly amplified a Q post, apparently calling the post "interesting" after it was shared by a QAnon influencer.
Lara Logan in a new online interview seemed to give credence to QAnon, falsely calling QAnon "an operation that is designed to discredit whatever it is that's coming out of Q." She also falsely claimed "the origins of Q lie in the intelligence community." (h/t @ehananoki)
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In a new podcast interview, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio said he & Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have apparently been talking since their release from prison & are "putting some things together to make liberals' heads explode."
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New: Martin Sellner, an Austrian white nationalist, said in an interview on a fellow white nationalist's podcast that he was "very happy" that Trump has used the term “remigration,” an anti-immigrant term Sellner had helped popularize.
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Tracy "Beanz" Diaz, one of the key figures behind QAnon's rise (, announced that anti-vaccine figure & former RFK Jr. campaign communications director Del Bigtree selected her to be editor-in-chief of MAHA, a group lead by former RFK Jr. campaign staffers.
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New from me: The anti-vaccine figures who claim to be working with Trump & RFK Jr.’s teams. In recent days Christiane Northrup, who's antisemitic & QAnon material, & Pete Evans, a conspiracy theorist TV chef, said they've advised RFK Jr. & his team.
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On a Rumble podcast a few days ago, Josh Pruitt, a Proud Boy who participated in January 6, said, "We were talking the other day, me & some of the other J6ers, about, you know, getting, like, a super PAC & trying to get some of these J6ers to run for office."
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Another QAnon figure apparently posted a photo of themselves with Kash Patel on the day of his confirmation hearing.
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And as for Senator Chuck Grassley suggesting this reporting is "guilt by association," I think this applies here as well.
CNN seems to be using my reporting on Kash Patel & QAnon for this segment, so I want to respond to the Trump transition team statement. My reporting was not about "guilt by association." Patel's association with & praise for QAnon was multifaceted & for a major period of time.
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Without getting specific, multiple QAnon-linked figures & entities have since announced that they have applied for White House press credentials in light of this announcement from the Trump administration.
During her first presser, WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announces that independent journalists, podcasters, and creators can now apply for press credentials. The link she gave to do so:
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Trump has yet again amplified a post from a QAnon-promoting account featuring language directly from Q posts. He has done this at least 8 times now since he began posting on Truth Social.
During the late hours of January 28 and early hours of January 29, Trump amplified 4 QAnon-promoting accounts a total of 6 times, including amplifying from one of them a post with a "Q" in it.
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