From 2018: Explaining QAnon, the Internet Conspiracy Theory That Showed Up at a Trump Rally (Published 2018)

Some attendees at President Trump's rally in Tampa in June 2018 wore T-shirts with a block letter Q.Credit...Chris O'Meara/Associated Press QAnon has changed since 2018. Go here for more. Those watching President Trump’s rally in Tampa on Tuesday couldn’t help but be exposed to a fringe movement that discusses several loosely connected and vaguely defined — and baseless — conspiracy theories. In o

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Mr. Decker said the prominence of QAnon T-shirts and signs at Mr. Trump’s televised rally in Tampa, and the elevation of that imagery via cable news coverage of the rally, were troubling. “In a sense, the internet won,” he said.

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