[알지RG]Curenan led the intrusion of the US Congress… After Trump leaves, the fate

As US President Donald Trump leaves the White House on the 20th (local time), attention is drawn to the course of the conspiracy theory group’Qanon’. It wasn’t after Trump came to power that Qurnan appeared and quickly became taxable. On the 6th, it was pointed out that Qurnan was also responsible for leading the first illegal parliamentary occupation.

Qurnan is a conspiracy theory or a group that follows the nickname’Q’ on the far right-oriented online bulletin board ‘4chan’ since the end of 2017, the year that President Trump took office. Qurnan is a combination of Q, who claims to be a high-ranking government official, and anonymous. The existence of this Q is not yet known.

The United States, they claim, is dominated by pedophiles and satanists who practice child prostitution, including former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former President Barack Obama. And Qurnan’s main argument is that they are in fact controlling the state through a secret bureaucracy called’deep state’, and that it is President Trump to save the United States against it.to be.

Since then, it has produced several conspiracy theories, such as the theory that Corona 19 has been manipulated, masks and corona 19 vaccine uselessness, and since the November 3 presidential election, Democrats such as’Deep State’ have raised claims that the elections were manipulated.

In the United States, many conspiracy theories have existed since the past related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the exploration of the moon, but it was rarely as popularized as Qurnan and spread widely. According to the results of a survey conducted by Ipsos, a polling company, on 1,115 American adults from December 21 to 22 last year (error range ±3.3%). 39% of respondents said they believe the existence of’deep state’ is true.

In addition, when asked that an elite group of pedophilia and satanists control American politics and the media, 17% of respondents said it was true, and 37% said they did not know. Less than half of the respondents (47%) who answered false.

Last year’s election was a springboard for Qurnan, who had stayed online, to enter the institutional politics. According to the US public NPR, there were 19 candidates related to Qurnan in the November 3rd election last year. Among them, Lauren Webert (35, Republican) and Marjorie Taylor Green (47, Republican) were elected as Congressmen of the State of Colorado and Georgia, respectively.

In particular, Green, nicknamed “Trump in high heels,” is a passionate Curenan believer who has produced a video containing Qurenan’s claims and posted it on his social media. That’s why the US media reported that “Curenan has entered Congress” for Green’s election.

Toxic among many conspiracy theories The growth of Qurnan in such popularity was due to President Trump’s onlook or sympathy.Is the analysis of local media. President Trump has created a support base by retweeting Qurnan’s claims.

According to the New York Times’ (NYT) analysis of President Trump’s tweets from January 20, 2017 to October 15, 2019, he retweeted accounts following at least 145 conspiracy theories. NYT analyzed that “through this process, conspiracy theory (Curenan) has moved from the fringes of social media to conservative politics, and has taken root among the enthusiastic supporters of President Trump.” He pointed out, “There is no place where Qurenan is promoted better than Twitter, and President Trump helped spread Qurenan on Twitter.”

in reality President Trump posted a post on Twitter last August stating that “Deepstate is using the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to prevent vaccine development by pharmaceutical companies to prevent his re-election. In addition, in the first TV debate in October last year, he avoided answering questions about Qurnan, saying, “They fight hard against pedophilia” or “Why don’t you ask about Antipa?”

In addition, after the defeat of the presidential election, he continued to argue against the presidential election and insist on unfair elections, mobilizing Qurnan, and sharing posts containing their arguments. In the end, the allegation of the unfair election and the sympathy of Qurenan led to the unprecedented’illegal occupation of the Congress’ on the 6th. Qurnan’s passionate activists were among the leaders of the illegal occupation.

Qurnan was not without crisis. Judging that the far-right conspiracy theory poses a threat to national security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) evaluated Qurnan in 2019 as a potential threat to the United States. In addition Major social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are also beginning to regulate Qernan’s posts. However, they avoided the surveillance network by moving to right-wing social media such as’parlor’ and’gap’ or by tagging completely irrelevant such as’savethechildren’.

In last year’s presidential election, President Trump was defeated, causing great chaos. According to the Washington Post (WP), Qurenan supporters, who were convinced of Trump’s re-election, flocked to ‘8kun’, a site where Qurenan mainly works, and said, “Trump lost. “Are we cheated?” In particular, Qurnan’s founding qualification, Q, did not post a post about a week after Trump’s re-election failed, and Ron Watkins, the operator of ‘8kun’, suddenly withdrew, and the confusion grew even more.

However, since then, Qurenan accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers have come up with a negative election theory. Their allegations of fraudulent elections were shared between President Trump and his supporters of polarity, and the allegations of fraudulent elections led to actual protests such as the Washington DC protests on the 6th.

The prospects for Qurnan’s future are mixed. In an interview with the Financial Times (FT) in December last year, Senior Researcher Joe Ondrak of the pact-checking agency Logically said, “Biden’s victory made Qurenan dominate.” It is difficult” he pointed out. Trump’s re-election, which they believed in and doubt, failed, and the foundation became unstable.

Some analysis suggested that there will be a disruption in spreading the message. It is as they are entering into strong regulations on Qionon in huge social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Although it has established itself in social media exclusively for the right wing such as’Gap’, It is an analysis that the number of users is so small that there is inevitably a setback to being called three.


On the other hand, the editor-in-chief of NewsGuard, a fact-checking company, told FT, “Curenan’s predictions such as the arrest of Hillary Clinton have already missed several times.” Analyzed.

Following “Curenan is spreading all over the world (beyond the US), and this Point”He added. According to his analysis, a French website dealing with Qurnan skyrocketed in its online popularity ranking from 1300 at the end of July to 293 at the end of November.

In fact, Qurnan has left the US mainland and has an influence on Europe as well. On August 30, last year, there was a local far-right who accepted Qurnan in the forces that led the so-called “no-mask demonstration” in Berlin, Germany, with 38,000 people gathered.

NYT columnist Fahad Manju also predicted on the 6th that “Curenan is already too big to tame. This level of influence will not suddenly disappear at noon (Biden took office) on January 20.”

Reporter Seok Kyung-min [email protected]