{"id":26535,"date":"2020-08-28T18:31:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T22:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=26535"},"modified":"2020-08-30T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T17:13:08","slug":"us-house-entertains-condemnation-of-qanon-for-disseminating-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=26535","title":{"rendered":"U.S. House of Representatives Entertains Condemnation of QAnon for Disseminating Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Streisand effect, engage! US House introduces symbolic bipartisan resolution against QAnon conspiracy theory<\/h1>\n

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\u00a9 Reuters \/ Leah Millis<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

RT.com<\/p>\n

A bipartisan pair of congressmen has introduced a resolution condemning the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, denouncing the psy-op as a \u201cdangerous, anti-Semitic, conspiracy-mongering cult.\u201d QAnon fans took this as encouragement.<\/p>\n

The resolution \u201ccondemning QAnon and rejecting the conspiracy theories it promotes<\/em>\u201d was introduced on Tuesday by New Jersey Democrat Tom Malinowski and Virginia Republican Denver Riggleman, citing \u2018experts\u2019 from the FBI to the Anti-Defamation League to claim QAnon adherents are anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists threatening the American way of life.<\/p>\n

The resolution \u201ccondemns QAnon and rejects the conspiracy theories it promotes<\/em>\u201d and urges the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to \u201cstrengthen their focus on preventing violence, threats, harassment, and other criminal activity by extremists motivated by fringe political conspiracy theories.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

On top of all that, it \u201curges all Americans, regardless of our beliefs or partisan affiliations, to seek information from authoritative sources, and to engage in political debate from a common factual foundation.<\/em>\u201d The resolution comes on the heels of dozens of mainstream media articles calling for QAnon-related content to be censored by social media.<\/p>\n

Echoing their hero President Donald Trump, however, QAnon adherents have argued the American media establishment is just fake news, accusing all so-called \u201cfact-checkers<\/em>\u201d of being controlled by the likes of billionaire currency speculator George Soros, a notorious funder of liberal causes.<\/p>\n

Reactions to the resolution were predictably polarized. Conservatives argued certain left-leaning groups \u2013 Black Lives Matter and Antifa, for example \u2013 pose a much greater danger, pointing out the country has bigger problems than a coterie of unhinged conspiracy theorists.<\/p>\n

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