{"id":5244,"date":"2018-12-05T17:52:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T22:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5244"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:49:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T20:49:07","slug":"who-tf-is-q-anon-and-what-has-he-she-they-them-done-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/05\/who-tf-is-q-anon-and-what-has-he-she-they-them-done-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Who tf is Q Anon and what has he\/she\/they\/them done to us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5231\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/120518-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5231\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/120518-1-1-300x283.jpg\" alt=\"Who tf is Q Anon and what has he\/she\/they\/them done to us?\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who tf is Q Anon and what has he\/she\/they\/them done to us?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There&#8217;s a history of &#8220;anon&#8221; accounts in 4chan who claim insider government access. &#8220;Qanon&#8221; was one such obscure account, claiming to be a military officer, and identifying all manner of conspiracies. Several Reddit threads pushed Qanon&#8217;s posts. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/qanon-explainer.\">bit.ly\/qanon-explainer.<\/a> Why these conspiracy theories gain traction is a subject of study for sociologists, psychologists &amp; political scientists. Here are several books in BC Libraries on the subject: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-conspiracies\">bit.ly\/bc-conspiracies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a history of &#8220;anon&#8221; accounts in 4chan who claim insider government access. &#8220;Qanon&#8221; was one such obscure account, claiming to be a military officer, and identifying all manner of conspiracies. Several Reddit threads pushed Qanon&#8217;s posts. bit.ly\/qanon-explainer. Why these conspiracy theories gain traction is a subject of study for sociologists, psychologists &amp; political scientists. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/05\/who-tf-is-q-anon-and-what-has-he-she-they-them-done-to-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who tf is Q Anon and what has he\/she\/they\/them done to us?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[435],"class_list":["post-5244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-qanon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5261,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions\/5261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}