They are VERY scared!

Guardian article:

Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy by Julia Ebner

"Cannibals, aliens and clandestine lizard overlords: thanks to algorithms, such ideas threaten the future of Europe.

Organised conspiracy theorist networks have launched an all-out information war across Europe. At the heart of this is the QAnon movement. It expanded from the US to Europe and the UK at rapid speed, hijacking political debates on social media as well as mass protests in the streets in recent months. Our new analysis at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows that European conspiracy theorists run increasingly sophisticated campaigns around critical junctions in national, regional and global politics. They even carried out social media operations to influence voters in German state elections, including the 2018 election in Bavaria."

More: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/18/online-conspiracy-theorists-democracy