QAnon’s New Conspiracy:
Democrats Are Stealing African Children
Published Aug. 03, 2020
QAnon supporters are seeking new platforms and followers in Africa to smear Joe Biden ahead of the U.S. election with wild accusations of an international pedophile cabal.
Philip Obaji Jr.
Published Aug. 03, 2020 3:51AM ET
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty
ABUJA, Nigeria—Just days after Twitter announced that it’s no longer letting the QAnon conspiracy theory run rampant on its site, the theory’s promoters began to target media in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and the world’s biggest Black society, sending emails depicting United States Democrats as anti-Black to multiple newsrooms and individual journalists.
In one email sent to multiple journalists, including news staff of Cool FM, Wazobia FM and Nigeria Info FM—Nigeria’s three biggest private radio stations—the sender, who goes by the name “William Gyado,” claimed a U.S. government agent with access to classified information involving the Trump administration and its American opponents had found that “there is a worldwide cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who rule and control almost everything in the world” and that these pedophiles are Americans who exploit Black people, including children in West Africa, and brutalize African Americans using law-enforcement agents.
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The email also says former U.S. vice-president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden disrespects Black people and is being protected by pedophiles. The sender claims U.S. President Donald Trump knows all about this evil cabal’s wrongdoing and that most Americans elected Trump to put an end to the cabal. In the end, there is a call on Africans to share the message with their contacts and social media followers “until it gets to our brothers and sisters in the U.S. who will be voting in the presidential election in November.”
“We’ve received a couple of these messages targeting U.S. Democrats since last week,” Chuma Nnoli, Head of Sports Content for Cool FM in Nigeria’s commercial city of Lagos, told The Daily Beast. “The senders really want us to believe that those who oppose Trump are terribly evil.”
The emails are clearly aimed at promoting QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory that posits that top U.S. Democrats and persons disliked by QAnon fans are cannibal-pedophiles who will soon be arrested and executed by Trump in an event they know as “The Storm.” It also shows that QAnon supporters are desperately looking to draw Africans into the movement.
“The senders really want us to believe that those who oppose Trump are terribly evil.”
In an attempt to justify why Africans should embrace the conspiracy theory, the senders referred to a Nov. 2019 study by the African Child Policy Forum which found that the continent is experiencing an increase in child sexual exploitation, including “tourism marriages” between young girls and male tourists in North Africa and the online recruitment of young girls in West Africa “into pornographic films and bestiality,” as evidence that kids on the continent are also being targeted by the world-ruling, Satan-worshipping pedophiles of QAnon’s fever dreams.
“The talk of children in Africa being exploited by American pedophiles makes you want to pay close attention to the emails,” Okon Nya, editor of the Nigerian sports news website Busy Buddies, told The Daily Beast. “Even if you don’t want to believe what the email says, it makes you want to think about it.”
“The talk of children in Africa being exploited by American pedophiles makes you want to pay close attention to the emails.”…
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