Right on cue: Russian Twitter accounts helped QAnon conspiracy in its infancy

Archives show Russian accounts helped spread the bizarre theory from April 2017, say researchers

02 November 2020 - 19:58 By Joseph Menn

Russian government-backed social media accounts nurtured the QAnon conspiracy theory in its infancy, earlier than previously reported, according to interviews with current and former Twitter executives and archives of tweets from suspended accounts...

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