The QAnon confederacy is an umbrella of bizarre and baseless opinion , started by an anonymous substance abuser of content panel 4chan and 8kun who claim without grounds to have special " Q headroom " approach to US interior security data .
Claims by the user who became known as " Q " are wide - place and ( where they can be tested)demonstrably false . There were hopes that the QAnon conspiracy theory would lose followers and prominence following several prominent claims failing to materialise earlier this twelvemonth . QAnon supporters believe that Trump would win November ’s election . When this fail to go on , and Joe Biden was sworn in as President , their belief that Donald Trump was to expose a sex - trafficking ring at the center of the " deep state " involving Hilary Clinton seemed less and less potential ( and it was already fictional ) .
Thankfully itappears to be the casethat online the great unwashed have been become away from the conspiracy . However , the trouble has n’t go aside entirely , as anew poll by the Public Religion Research Institute ( PRRI ) has found .
Rather than need masses directly whether they believe in QAnon , the institute inquire over 5,149 adults ( old age 18 and up ) living in the US whether they fit with gist beliefs link with the conspiracy .
It found that an uncomfortably eminent 15 pct of Americans agreed with the assertion “ the political science , media , and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan - worship pedophiles who run a global minor sexual activity trafficking surgery " . The belief was more prevalent amongst those who get their news from far - right news outlets such as One America News web ( OANN ) and Newsmax ( 40 percent ) , people who do not watch television set news ( 21 percent ) , and people who trust Fox News ( 18 pct ) .
Republicans were much more likely to believe the statement ( 23 percent ) than Democrats ( 8 percent ) .
A second opinion that was test was that " there is a storm come soon that will sweep away the elite in office and reinstate the rightful leaders " . 20 percentage agreed with this dogma of QAnon , with Republicans ( 28 percent ) again more likely to conceive it than Democrats ( 14 percent ) . The divide among sensitive consumer was visible here too , with followers of far - right medium much more likely ( 48 pct ) to agree with the statement , and the great unwashed who entrust Fox News ( 34 percent ) above the national norm too .
Perhaps the most worrying part of the crown was the not - undistinguished number of mass who agreed with the statement " because things have get so far off course , true American patriots may have to resort to violence for save our country " ( 15 percent ) . Belief in the statement again fell along partisan and medium - consumption lines .
Digging down deeply into less - prevalent view of QAnon , the survey also found that 9 percent of Americans believe in the false statement that " the COVID-19 vaccine contains a surveillance chip that is the sign of the animal in biblical divination " , with 39 percent of QAnon truster agreeing with it and 1 percent of citizenry who decline the Qanon cabal .
