> But its followers now act more like a virtual cult, largely adoring and believing whatever disinformation the conspiracy community spins up. Its main conspiracy theories claim dozens of politicians and A-list celebrities work in tandem with governments around the globe to engage in child sex abuse.
I'm not a QAnon guy, but this "conspiracy theory" is pretty darn well-established now. Jeffery Epstein was connected to dozens of politicians and A-list celebrities, to include Trump, the Clintons, and Kevin Spacey. He trafficked child sex slaves, including a 16-year-old girl to Prince Andrew. Then he is alleged to have committed suicide in a maximum security prison because, for some reason, the guards who were supposed to check on him fell asleep, coincidentally at the same time Epstein happened to choose to kill himself.
This raises very obvious questions about the integrity of our justice system, and the complicity of government in this (including possibly foreign governments, such as the UK), and so far, exactly none of them are answered. The government's strongest response, as far as I can tell, has been to indict the two guards who were supposed to guard him. Epstein's closest-known associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, is now in custody... in the exact same jail.
Again, I haven't followed QAnon at all apart from dismissing it as an elaborate LARP several years ago. Still, if this is the "misinformation" they're pushing, then perhaps the reason Twitter has chosen to censor them now isn't because of falsehoods, but because there really ARE politicians and A-listers sexually exploiting children, with the protection of government.