After Crackdown from Mainstream Social Sites, QAnon Followers Go Elsewhere

Adherents of QAnon, an extremist ideology that the FBI has deemed a domestic terrorism threat, can now be found in the less-visible but still-virulent world of encrypted chat app groups on Telegram and elsewhere. These largely unmoderated online spaces have become cauldrons of ludicrous claims about the pandemic and breeding grounds for an increasingly intense alliance between QAnon and covid denialism.