【Q速】ワシントンポスト「発祥地のアメリカより日本の方がQアノンが多くて草。日本人は病気」

Opinion: QAnon is an American invention, but it has become a global plague

The outlandish conspiracies embraced by QAnon believers focus sharply on mythical events supposedly occurring in the United States. But this worldview has also made its way across the globe, infecting minds in scores of countries. Despite its very American DNA, QAnon is adapting, rapidly spawning new variants across the world.

The viral spread of QAnon, which has already prompted violence in the United States, would be unthinkable without social media ― one more reminder of the urgent need for sensible regulation of social media platforms.
The dangerously bizarre far-right beliefs made a splash with Pizzagate, a 2016 conspiracy theory claiming that Hillary Clinton and other Democrats were running a pedophile ring from the basement of a D.C. pizzeria. Then this morphed into a much more elaborate and deranged ideology about a global cabal of powerful pedophiles, a “deep state” running the world and ― borrowing from ancient antisemitic conspiracy theories ― drinking the blood of children to stay young. Believers began to see Donald Trump as their savior, and he was happy to accept their praise.

The U.S. social media giants eventually tried to curtail QAnon’s spread, but that didn’t stop QAnon backers from being elected to Congress, while others joined the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
You might think that the entire QAnon construct is too U.S.-centric to garner much interest in other countries ― but you’d be wrong. The covid-19 pandemic, which has turbocharged all sorts of conspiracy theories, has acted as a global accelerant. A non-exhaustive check by the Web watchdog NewsGuard found more than 448,000 QAnon followers in Europe alone last year. By one count, it has taken root in about 70 countries, sprouting local versions with their own mind-boggling ideas.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/10/qanon-japan-germany-colombia-conspiracy-theories-disinformation/