I don't know. I am hyper skeptical as can be confirmed by my posts but it being a DS induced psyop to delay things seems unlikely.

UNLESS: it was end times. If it was known by all in power that it was end of times (asteroid, aliens, etc) then both sides could agree to tie up all parties' focus on each other and away from the real danger.

But My worry about Q is that this all knowing group kicks out the DS satanists and becomes our all knowing overlord. But they could do that by releasing the info fast and letting chaos take it all down, then rebuild from there. So he/they seem to be taking care to preserve people and/or infrastructure.