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Author archive for Marc-André Argentino

  • Jan062022

    QAnon and Beyond: Analysing QAnon Trends a Year After January 6th

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    For some, the electoral loss of Donald Trump and the disappearance of the figure known as “Q” was marking the…

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  • Jul282021

    QAnon is not Dead: New Research into Telegram Shows the Movement is Alive and Well

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    Following the role that QAnon adherents, and other actors, played in the insurrection on 6 January 2021, large social media…

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  • Jun222021

    Extremism Unmasked

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    Early analysis in 2020 raised two points, the COVID-19 health restrictions would likely have an impact on offline recruitment from…

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  • Apr292021

    QAnon Women in Politics Part Two: QAnon Careers

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    Over the last year, the QAnon conspiracy has cemented itself as part of the furniture of the American political landscape,…

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  • Apr282021

    QAnon Women in Politics Part One: The QAnon Candidates

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    Content warning: discussion of rape and sexual violence statistics and child abuse. The 2020 United States election marked QAnon’s formal…

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  • Mar172021

    Pastel QAnon

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    On 21 July 2020, Twitter Safety announced that they will be taking a stronger enforcement against “behavior that has the…

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  • Mar122021

    The WQmen of QAnon

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    Women play an important part in radical and violent extremist movements; however, since men carry out the majority of violent…

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  • Jan132021

    Ashli Babbitt: A Far-Right Martyr of the Insurrection

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    On 6 January, during the insurrection on Capitol Hill, Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot in the neck by Capitol police…

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  • Jun082020

    Digital Platforms and Extremism 2: Electric Boogaloo

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    Increasingly the “boogaloo” movement has been making the news with its capacity to mobilise protestors and spread disinformation during the…

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  • Apr082020

    The COVID Conspiracy Files

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    The world is now four months into the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant infodemic. Though efforts have been made to…

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