Posted on 07/16/2018 5:03:18 PM PDT by MNDude
One of the App Store’s top entertainment apps pushed a conspiracy theory about a child sex ring and a Trump secret police force.
An app promoting a conspiracy theory featuring Hillary Clinton and a child sex ring lingered at the top of Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store for months, with both tech giants receiving a cut of the revenue in the process.
The app, called “QDrops,” sends alerts about a conspiracy theory called Qanon, an offshoot of the “pizzagate” fiction that claimed Clinton was running a child sex trafficking ring out of the basement of a Washington pizza shop that didn’t even have a basement. Like many conspiracy theories, Qanon got its start on 4chan, an anonymous posting site that is a seedbed for extreme thought and a large number of online subcultures.
QDrops has largely remained in the top 200 of paid iOS apps, including a run in the top 10 in the entertainment section in the past two weeks, according to two third-party companies that track app rankings using Apple and Google’s RSS feeds.
Apple has previously touted that apps appearing in its store are approved by a staff of moderators. Apple CEO Tim Cook has railed against platforms such as Facebook that did little to stop disinformation from spreading at alarming rates.
“We carefully review each app, and we don’t subscribe to the view that we have to let everyone in that wants to, and if you don’t, you don’t believe in free speech. We don’t believe that,” Cook told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and Recode’s Kara Swisher in April.
“There was an argument to be made that Apple was the only major technology company that did not directly profit off misinformation,” he told NBC News. “But this app diminishes it substantially.”
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The MSM sure worries about this LARP a lot.
More credibility to Q if NBC is scared of it.
I’m too cheap to pay .99 for it. Guest I’ll just have to continue to use my book-mark.
You have to pay for Q?
The people who built the app are likely not related to Q. They just made a way to regurgitate Q posts via an app. It’s a subject that many people are interested in. It’s called capitalism.
If I was following Q closely and used a phone or tablet for much of my research I would shell out 99 cents for the app.
Can’t believe NBC mentioned the pizza place’s basement, or “lack thereof.”
There is some kind of phone app that alerts you to new Q posts that they want .99 cents for. According to that article it’s one of their best sellers.
Both NBC and Apple are enemies of the free and decent people of America.
Nobody who believes in Pizzagate believes Comet Pizza has a basement. Those deliberate misrepresentations of the Theory shows they know it is true.
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