Alex Kaplan
@AlKapDC
Senior Researcher @mmfa, focusing on social media misinfo/disinfo & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to [email protected]
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. mediamatters.org/qanon-conspira…
QAnon figure Jon Herold (known online as "Patel Patriot") in a podcast earlier this month said that he's "gotten to know [Rumble CEO] Chris Pavlovski personally" and added that "we'll chat now and then."
Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski was given a media seat at today's WH press briefing. Here's some of the conspiracy theory content Rumble's staff has editorially selected in its "editor picks" section as some of the "absolute real best of" the platform: mediamatters.org/rumble/rumbles…
New from me: QAnon world has been roiled by Trump opposing releasing the Epstein files. QAnon was allegedly about holding pedophiles accountable. As Trump dismisses the Epstein filings, many QAnon figures have tried finding a way to give him a pass. mediamatters.org/qanon-conspira…
DNI Tulsi Gabbard repeatedly retweeted QAnon figure Jacob Creech (known online as "Clandestine"), who hyped the retweets & in 2022 had popularized the false Ukrainian biolabs conspiracy theory. Creech previously claimed Gabbard responded to him when he was seeking help.
QAnon figure Jacob Creech (known online as "Clandestine"), known for popularizing online the false Ukrainian biolabs conspiracy theory, claimed that Tulsi Gabbard was "the ONLY person to respond to me" when he was "seeking legal help."
Richard Grenell, Trump’s envoy for special missions, earlier today retweeted a post that includes an image of a Q post in it.
.@donie cites on CNN my ongoing tracker of Trump's amplifications on Truth Social of QAnon-promoting accounts, which has now crossed the 1,000 mark. x.com/AlKapDC/status…
The disconnect on Epstein between Trump and his hyper-online base shows that while the president is a prolific poster -- he perhaps isn't as savvy a consumer of social media. Discussion w/@kaitlancollins & @DashaBurns Column from me on this here: cnn.com/2025/07/16/med…
A QAnon influencer who apparently recently renewed his wedding vows with his spouse on the beach had a "17" in a circle in the sand in front of the couple during it. (Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet.)
Last week, on his Proud Boys-affiliated channel, Enrique Tarrio denied another participant's claim that Tarrio had said "that we were supposed to stay away from the JQ [Jewish Question]" on the channel: "As long as you're streaming on Rumble, I don't give a fuck what you say."
White nationalist Keith Woods was apparently invited to Poland's parliament by one of its members. According to posts and images posted on social media, he also apparently participated in a conference about immigration that included multiple members of Poland's parliament.
A new (evidence-free) claim going around the far-right — again, particularly in the QAnon community — is that the Trump admin's new proclamations regarding Jeffrey Epstein is basically 5D chess that is causing more coverage of Epstein & that that apparently is part of their plan.
Some of the far-right online, particularly the QAnon community, are responding to this DOJ/FBI memo about Jeffrey Epstein reported by Axios by baselessly suggesting that the memo is fake and that even Axios may have made it up.