{"id":15641,"date":"2020-08-20T16:14:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T16:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocialelement.agency\/?p=15641"},"modified":"2020-10-21T10:07:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T10:07:36","slug":"savethechildren-qanon-and-brands-on-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocialelement.agency\/savethechildren-qanon-and-brands-on-social","title":{"rendered":"#SaveTheChildren: QAnon and Brands on Social"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What Marketers Should Know<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overview<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

QAnon, a loosely organized network and community of believers who embrace a wide range of unsubstantiated theories, is front and center in the current news cycle and will likely stay there as the US election season heats up. This week, Facebook removed 790 QAnon groups<\/a> and suspended more than 10,000 accounts in an effort to reduce the presence on the platform. Last week, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a public QAnon supporter from Georgia, won her Republican congressional primary<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

QAnon has spread from fringe message boards to mainstream platforms<\/a> over the past 4 years. Politicians, celebrities, and brands are being attacked for either helping or harming the cause. It is crucial that brand managers stay up to speed on this developing topic and monitor their social communication accordingly. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is QAnon?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At its heart, QAnon is a loosely connected community around a wide-ranging conspiracy theory. <\/strong>QAnon activity is rooted in the belief that many people in positions of power or influence are linked to a global child sex trafficking operation. QAnon has been focused on “outing” these figures for their “crimes\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adherents draw in news events, historical facts, and numerology to develop their own conclusions, often not based on scientific or historical fact. This yields many offshoots, detours, and internal debates. As a result, the total list of QAnon claims is enormous – and often contradictory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few QAnon theories\/starting points:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n