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CNN: Talk of overturning the 2020 election on new social media platforms used by QAnon followers sparks fears of further violence
CNN ^ | June 2nd | By Jamie Gangel and Donie O'Sullivan, CNN

Posted on 06/02/2021 6:51:06 PM PDT by RandFan

Online conversation among Trump supporters and QAnon followers on new and emerging social media platforms is creating concern on Capitol Hill that President Donald Trump's continued perpetuation of the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen could soon incite further violence, three congressional sources tell CNN.

The social messaging platform Telegram has emerged as a particular source of concern among law enforcement officials, the congressional sources say. Groups on the platform dedicated to QAnon and pro-Trump conspiracy theories have tens of thousands of members -- many of whom hang on every word the former President says.

Trump's comments to right-wing media outlets in recent weeks have played directly into the false belief among some of his supporters that he will be reinstated as president in the coming months.

Federal law enforcement officials say there is an overall concern about rhetoric on the election in general, both online, on Telegram and other sites, and offline.

Officials are careful to stress that much of it falls under First Amendment free speech protections. But officials are worried about how the talk can encourage and inspire people to act.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: cnn; donieosullivan; fakenews; jamiegangel; lyingnewspuppets; propaganda; stolenelectionbingo; thebigsteal; thesteal; votefraudbingo; xinn; xisnewspuppets
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To: RandFan

Good. Start the damn civil war in earnest. This sitting on our hands nonsense is solving the problems.


41 posted on 06/02/2021 7:28:10 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: RandFan
They are pre vaccinating themselves for the time the results come back on the audits. If we find literally hundreds of thousands of fake votes, they want to be able to say QAnon falsified the results. If Trump won by literally tens of millions of votes, they have to have away of killing it in it's cradle. Remember what ever they say we are doing, they have done!

Look at Fauci saying it didn't come from the lab all the while he was paying for work in the Lab. The earliest cases of Covid 19 came from the Lab itself, but we are told they must have caught it from the wet market.

Listen to what they say then look to the opposite.

42 posted on 06/02/2021 7:28:37 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: CatOwner

*is not


43 posted on 06/02/2021 7:28:39 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: RandFan

Cnn has the idea Trump will be President afterall.. so they start with the lying and indoctrination to the viewers they have left.


44 posted on 06/02/2021 7:34:29 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: MAGAthon

Mind Numbed Robots
Is what they must
Have and they’ve
Got them.


45 posted on 06/02/2021 7:38:22 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: RandFan

Jamie Gangel

Bitch


46 posted on 06/02/2021 7:40:52 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: RandFan

CNN can’t stop talking about QAnon.


47 posted on 06/02/2021 7:42:32 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: RandFan

The Clinton News Network is running feverish article after feverish article, quaking in fear from qanons and white supremacists.

Pearl clutchers unite!


48 posted on 06/02/2021 7:42:37 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: RandFan

I’m sure there will be some violence on both sides as time progresses. After all, it is a communist takeover. We should just be ready to start keeping score.


49 posted on 06/02/2021 7:56:08 PM PDT by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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To: lurk
The only thing right wingers will start is their meat smokers.

Yes, I have several meat smokers. One in 30.06, one in 7.62x51, and a few others in 5.56mm.

50 posted on 06/02/2021 7:58:32 PM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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To: RandFan

I don’t want anyone to get hurt but Jan 6th wasn’t Stalingrad ok? Stuff happens get over it!


51 posted on 06/02/2021 7:59:47 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: RandFan

lol

where were these “worries” when the LEFT said, GW Bush stole the election? and when they claimed Trump stole his 1st election?

yeah....

I remember, and I also remember when the left OCCUPIED the Wisconsin state capital... for WEEKS!!

Protesting was patriotic then! but sedition now!

hey, leftists... STFU!


52 posted on 06/02/2021 8:29:44 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: zadox
that people are forced to listen to at airports.

Whoever let COVID get out of Wuhan and into the USA didn't care that CNN was collateral damage. With less air travel less people suffer from CNN at the airport.

53 posted on 06/02/2021 8:33:08 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: RandFan

“source of concern among law enforcement officials” -— IIRC, there are people who have posted assaults and murders on Facebook & Twitter, but that is no concern of anyone in law enforcement...


54 posted on 06/02/2021 8:36:06 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Big Red Badger
In Tulsa Joe Biden kept inflating the number of people killed in the Tulsa Riots 100 years ago.

He's talking thousands of people, when left leaning historians say up to 300, and contemporaneous reports from 1921 are less than 100 people.

Riots and mob violence are never good, and always lead to the loss of life, suffering, and property damage. But reality and facts are something the left claims they believe in. Riots now are ignored, but riots 100 years ago are inflated to create division and dissention.

That's Propaganda!

55 posted on 06/02/2021 8:38:42 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: KTM rider

Agreed


56 posted on 06/02/2021 8:47:32 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: freeandfreezing

PedoJoe,
Where do I start


57 posted on 06/02/2021 8:52:14 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: BenLurkin

Arizona!!!!!!!!


58 posted on 06/02/2021 8:53:46 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! )
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To: RandFan

President Donald Trump’s continued perpetuation of the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen
.....................................................
Got some news for you, dude: President Trump is only one of TENS OF MILLIONS of Americans who don’t “think”, THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that the 2020 election was stolen. They know, and the whole world knows that the winner of the 2020 election was President Donald Trump, and they rightfully believe that the incoherent Imposter schlepping around the White House will soon be gone and the Jamaican “lady” will become the THIRD consecutive Presidential Imposter.


59 posted on 06/02/2021 9:00:19 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: BenLurkin

#2. Where was CNN during all the Antifa/BLM violence you mentioned over THE PAST YEAR? Covering “mostly peaceful demonstrations, don’t mind the burning buildings, injured police, burning police cars and the looting”

That is why CNN stand for the Communist News Network.


60 posted on 06/02/2021 9:07:09 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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