"Is it a Qoincidence?": A First Step Towards Understanding and Characterizing the QAnon Movement on Voat.co (pizzagate)

submitted ago by Mil_Spec

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04885

In this work, we focus on characterizing the QAnon movement on this http URL [Voat.co]. QAnon is a conspiracy theory that supports the idea that powerful politicians, aristocrats, and celebrities are closely engaged in a pedophile ring. At the same time, many governments are controlled by the "puppet masters" where the democratically elected officials serve as a fake showroom of democracy. Voat, a 5-year-old news aggregator, captured the interest of many journalists because of the often hateful content its users' post. Hence, we collect data from seventeen QAnon related subverses to characterize the narrative around QAnon, detect the most prominent topics of discussion, and showcase how the different topics and terms used in QAnon related subverses are interconnected.

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04885

notable sections:

Notably, we relied on a word2vec model to illustrate the connection of different terms to closely related words. We found that the terms "qanon" and "q" are closely related to other conspiracy theories like "pizzagate"

Last we attempt to showcase how racist these communities tend to be, motivated by the slurs we detect in the word2vec model vocabulary and in the topic modeling we performed in Section 5.1. We now calculate the cosine similarity of the terms "nigger," and "jew."

By looking at Table 6, it is clear that the term "nigger" is associated with many hateful slurs like "kike" (a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of the Jewish religion or descent) "faggot" and "filthy"

As hypothesized, the term "jew" is closely related to words associated with the holocaust, and the terms "masters," and "puppet" which suggests that indeed the users in these communities blame people of the Jewish religion or descent for corrupting their government, and leading the "deep state"

Alarmingly, we found that only one user authored about 30% of the total submissions posted in the most active subverse

Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

Proverbs 17:27

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MercurysBall2 ago

Here is the information that is being collected on user profiles: https://imgur.com/a/uyK4nhw

@Vindicator @darkknight111 @shewhomustbeobeyed @think-

Crancsh ago

wasn't there someone here trying to warn everyone that all their information was already out there and told people where to find it?

MercurysBall2 ago

I'm not aware of that.

theoldonez ago

Well I'm too lazy to sift through the drama but some people claimed to have ip access and Gotham girl was just posting about it.

Moderators claimed @thewebofslime was collecting ips and banned him but he showed how everyone's passwords are already out on the Internet ip is irrelevant just need username or email address.

Then he proved it further by leaking passwords of wuhan institute of virology and the world health organization. The passwords were proven to be working and material was acquired from the accounts. There was a story in the Washington post about it.

As far as I know he proved @vindicator was a shill working for QinetiQ a British defense contractor and that was the real reason for the banning. Or somebody with the password goatfucker. One of the mods.

MercurysBall2 ago

So what do you think is the reason for an organisation like QinetiQ to set up a place like this? Honeytrap is the obvious answer. But what, in your opinion, is the long game?

Heebro ago

this sub is dead and it should be pumping out info and reporting to the authorities especially in the midst of the election. notice a lot of other places on the Internet are getting the word out about Pizzagate now. Not /v/Pizzagate though.

A list of places to report in the sidebar? Nope. A concise list of pedophiles and their crimes anywhere? Nope.

Meanwhile the guy who actually has an automated pedo hunter that anyone can use to report pedos all day long is considered a villain by /v/pizzagate? Look at the sticky at /v/thewebofslime. He started a discord to trade stocks where a lot of us have done quite well at making money. We just crushed it on WWR because of Trump's executive order.

https://pedomap.live

You can also make money against human traffickers by submitting whistleblower forms against their businesses and non-profits.

This is the information that @vindicator is actively burying. In the meantime about a dozen of us are making a lot of money and actually reporting crimes. Last week we collectively reported over a hundred pedos on the discord.

@Vindicator, who claims to be pro pizzagate, has done nothing of the sort and is mostly focused on censoring people and insulting them. He has a lot less power and attention after his shill cohorts were exposed. This is why he hates "doxxers". Doxxing destroys pedophiles and shills.

So, you'll see stickied posts about reddit user accounts (spoiler alert NOT Ghislaine Maxwell) and bullshit about adrenochrome but you won't see how to put evil people in jail on /v/Pizzagate because the whole point of having a shill run the place is to protect them.

Vindicator ago

v/webofslime links to sites Slime controls, which he has admitted to using to dox v/pizzagate subscribers. Now you're hyping his shit with "Muh stock trades sky rocketing!"

Are you one of his sockpuppets, Heebro? Or are you just here to bash this sub for shits and giggles?

Vindicator ago

@Crensch @MolochHunter @MadWorld @Kestrel9 @Argosciv -- have you seen this? Slime is using a get rich quick and bust pedos scheme to gather people's data, now.