{"id":103038,"date":"2020-10-21T14:32:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=103038"},"modified":"2020-10-21T14:32:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:32:24","slug":"qaon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/qaon\/","title":{"rendered":"QAon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: What is QAon, which was recently in news?<\/strong><br>a) Supercomputer<br>b) Hypersonic missile<br>c) Computer game<br>d) A Conspiracy theory or movement<br><strong>Answer: (d)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 15 Otober 2020; YouTube announced that it would take additional measures to block content that promotes QAnon<\/li><li>QAon is a pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theory or movement.<\/li><li>QAnon has been under the spotlight in recent times.<\/li><li>In July, Twitter and TikTok blocked some hashtags and removed some accounts related to it.<\/li><li>In August, Facebook announced a ban on QAnon groups.<\/li><li>Last year, the FBI said fringe political conspiracy theories including QAnon are a domestic threat.<\/li><li>It is anticipated that these movements, likely to motivate some domestic extremists, wholly or in part, to engage in criminal or violent activity.<\/li><li><strong>About QAnon:-<\/strong><\/li><li>QAnon took shape around 2017 when an anonymous user called \u201cQ\u201d or \u201cQ Clearance Patriot\u201d started posting conspiracy theories.<\/li><li>\u201cQ\u201d refers to a security clearance given by the US Department of Energy for access to top-secret information.<\/li><li>Q, who claims to be a high-ranking intelligence officer with access to sensitive information of the Trump administration.<\/li><li>He started posting on the platform 4chan in 2017, and now posts on 8kun, a website run by the founders of 8chan.<\/li><li>8chan was shut down after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas in 2019 , the killers had posted hate content on 8chan.<\/li><li><strong>The conspiracy theory:-<\/strong><\/li><li>QAnon followers believe that the world is being run by a cabal of paedophiles who worship Satan and that one of Trump\u2019s aims as US President is to unmask the cabal and punish them.<\/li><li>According to the conspiracy theorists, Trump is secretly preparing for a day of reckoning, \u201cThe Storm\u201d, when members of the \u201cdeep state\u201d will be executed.<\/li><li>This theory has been gaining traction among some far-right voters ahead of the November 3 presidential election.<\/li><li>The conspiracy theorists believe that Democrats such as Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama, and Hollywood actors Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey, are part of a global child sex-trafficking ring.<\/li><li>This takes off from the \u201cPizzagate\u201d theory, long debunked, which circulated during the 2016 presidential election.<\/li><li>Far-right activists had claimed that Clinton, who contested against Trump, was running a child trafficking racket from the basement of a pizza parlour in Washington, DC.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/qanon-a-conspiracy-theory-feeding-violence-6758120\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/qanon-a-conspiracy-theory-feeding-violence-6758120\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What is QAon, which was recently in news?a) Supercomputerb) Hypersonic missilec) Computer gamed) A Conspiracy theory or movementAnswer: (d)Related Facts:- On 15 Otober 2020; YouTube announced that it would take additional measures to block content that promotes QAnon QAon is a pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theory or movement. 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