THe WaPoz Clwons AreNOt HaPpy Be vwrry vwrry careful http://archive.is/QDVOD QAnon’s “researchers” have figured out how to shape national conversations. Those crazed larpers!  What would WhackPo have us do to protect the slheep? THE HORROR  (((inaccurately sourced statistics))) nooooooo! On July 7, Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and frequent Fox News contributor, published a tweet that contained startling but inaccurately sourced statistics about the alleged growth of human trafficking arrests under the Trump administration. It stated there were 1,952 human trafficking arrests through all of 2016, but in the first half of 2018 authorities had already made an astounding 5,987 human trafficking arrests. Kirk’s tweet falsely claimed these figures came from the Justice Department. Kirk deleted the tweet shortly after the true source of its figures was revealed: the notorious imageboard 8chan, home of the QAnon conspiracy  DUN DUN DUN! https://thepoliticalinsider.com/human-trafficking-arrests-surge/  Through late June 2018, human trafficking arrests for the year approached 6,000. That’s nearly double the year prior (which itself marked an all-time high), and triple the year before that. Human trafficking-related arrests never topped 2,000 under the Obama administration and were a paltry 300 in 2010. Quick! Somebody arrest Matt at the Political Insider and send the WAPOLice to Q-uarantine The Washington Examiner! Back to the WAPOLice: QAnon believers think if they can show that more human traffickers are being arrested, it will support the baseless notion that Trump is finally putting an end to long-protected trafficking rings used by these elites. Though Kirk may not have realized it at first, he had bought into the collective fantasy of some of the Internet’s most outré Trump fans. And for that he must be banished. But 8chan’s success in spreading QAnon suggests that targeted harassment is merely one of the ways they can inflict real world damage. Namely, they represent a political force that can craft resonant narratives and push them through major social media networks into the mainstream. The 'mainstream' is like Reddit and WAPO are just one of Society's MODs.  DO NOT FUCK with SOCIAL ENGINEERING or you too will be banished!  Why? But it is more than a joke. It can drive national conversations. And driving national conversations is worth Trillions and Trillions and Trillions of dollars ;)