"Is it a Qoincidence?": A First Step Towards Understanding and Characterizing the QAnon Movement on Voat.co (pizzagate)

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Mods, consider your own words, and the impact that it has on discussion and tone.

Optics Matter, Slurs Detract.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04885

In this work, we focus on characterizing the QAnon movement on this http URL [Voat.co]. QAnon is a conspiracy theory that supports the idea that powerful politicians, aristocrats, and celebrities are closely engaged in a pedophile ring. At the same time, many governments are controlled by the "puppet masters" where the democratically elected officials serve as a fake showroom of democracy. Voat, a 5-year-old news aggregator, captured the interest of many journalists because of the often hateful content its users' post. Hence, we collect data from seventeen QAnon related subverses to characterize the narrative around QAnon, detect the most prominent topics of discussion, and showcase how the different topics and terms used in QAnon related subverses are interconnected.

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04885

notable sections:

Notably, we relied on a word2vec model to illustrate the connection of different terms to closely related words. We found that the terms "qanon" and "q" are closely related to other conspiracy theories like "pizzagate"

Last we attempt to showcase how racist these communities tend to be, motivated by the slurs we detect in the word2vec model vocabulary and in the topic modeling we performed in Section 5.1. We now calculate the cosine similarity of the terms "nigger," and "jew."

By looking at Table 6, it is clear that the term "nigger" is associated with many hateful slurs like "kike" (a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of the Jewish religion or descent) "faggot" and "filthy"

As hypothesized, the term "jew" is closely related to words associated with the holocaust, and the terms "masters," and "puppet" which suggests that indeed the users in these communities blame people of the Jewish religion or descent for corrupting their government, and leading the "deep state"

Alarmingly, we found that only one user authored about 30% of the total submissions posted in the most active subverse

Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

Proverbs 17:27

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kestrel9 ago

Studies using data from Voat.

Chandrasekharan et al. [9] set on detecting abusive content using data from 4chan, Reddit, Voat, and MetaFilter. The authors propose a novel approach towards detecting abusive content, namely, Bag of Communities (BoC). The proposed model performs with 75% accuracy without the need of training examples from the target community.

It is worth mentioning that part of the Voat data collected for their work originate from /v/CoonTown, /v/Nigger, and /v/fatpeoplehate: three communities focused on hate towards groups of individuals with specific body or race characteristics. These subverses were created in Voat after Reddit banned the original /r/CoonTown, /r/fatpeoplehate, and /r/nigger, subreddits in 2015 [45, 43, 40]. Similarly, Salim et al. [46] use Reddit comments to train a classifier that can accurately detect hateful speech. The authors use this classifier to detect such content on Voat’s /v/CoonTown, /v/fatpeoplehate, and /v/TheRedPill...

So when users who frequent those subs, and who also hate anything related to Q, come onto the Q subs for the purpose of haranguing those subscribers, and they use the so called 'hate' language, (but it's targeted at people who follow Q), then the study will reflect those Q subs as guilty of 'spreading hate'. Great /s. Same on PG when people use certain words, even typing in info of what the study itself is tracking in it's sample, those word counts will reflect on the sub PG, (if PG is in the sample as a target community).

shewhomustbeobeyed ago

So when users who frequent those subs, and who also hate anything related to Q, come onto the Q subs for the purpose of haranguing those subscribers, and they use the so called 'hate' language, (but it's targeted at people who follow Q), then the study will reflect those Q subs as guilty of 'spreading hate'. Great /s. Same on PG when people use certain words, even typing in info of what the study itself is tracking in it's sample, those word counts will reflect on the sub PG, (if PG is in the sample as a target community).

What about the Qtards who subscribe to the subverses you've listed as being Hateful?

You also haven't taken into account people like crunchy, fagos, and mocockslutter. They are qbiciles who are almost always hateful in there speech. Or didn't you notice?

argosciv ago

It really should come as no shock that a media entity removes all context and merely labels a subsect of Voat as hateful based on the hateful rhetoric af another subsect of Voat which actively hates the first subsect...

If they included context, they would plainly see that it isn't QAnons who are the racists. Hateful though they are in some respects, the article blatantly ignores all context for the sake of pushing a narrative which is incidentally in favor of those who seek harm on QAnons. Again though, is anything else really to be expected from any media entity anywhere?

Score one for the 'shitposters' who shit up QRV for exactly the purpose of poisoning external opinion/perception.

@Vindicator

Vindicator ago

So when users who frequent those subs, and who also hate anything related to Q, come onto the Q subs for the purpose of haranguing those subscribers, and they use the so called 'hate' language, (but it's targeted at people who follow Q), then the study will reflect those Q subs as guilty of 'spreading hate'.

Yes, this wing of the infowar anti-pizzagate operation has been obvious since the Reddit migration in November 2016. It's pretty obvious to me that the whole point of the Reddit shutdown was to force the migration to Voat so that our research could be discredited and dismissed as extremist hate speech. The very first mod team here attempted to ban it, which triggered the Voat immune system and got them all demodded.

Ironically, what ended up happening is that Voat's radical free-speech atmosphere ended up both truly invigorating research (waking up a lot of anti-child-trafficking normies to the role of Satanic Freemasons and Marxists in the Cabal) and toughening them to information warfare.

The academic researchers of this study make a giant error. They dismiss the hate speech subs as having no content worthy of consideration, when in fact they contain a lot of suppressed data and history from post-WWI and WWII which, when known, completely exposes the globalist Cabal and it's agenda.