text: 173,191,1304802684982243331,927915414151147521,Antonis Papasavva,"📢 In our latest work, \w the usual suspects @iDRAMALab @emilianoucl @gianluca_string @jhblackb @zsavvas90, we perform a preliminary analysis of the QAnon movement on <LINK>. Find our preprint here 📰👇👇👇<LINK> We find that the submissions in v/GreatAwakening tend to get approximately 57 upvotes and only 1.7 downvotes. On average, the /v/GreatAwakening submissions tend to be positively voted with the final vote (sum) being 59, and the median sum being ~32. <LINK> Alarmingly, the audience of /v/GreatAwakening consumes content from a handful of users. The top submitter is responsible for 31.47% (1.36K) submissions. Excluding the top 15 submitters, all other users only posted 31.14% (1.34K) submissions. 📊 <LINK> Interestingly, we observe that about 26% (932 users) of the users in our dataset registered a new account on Voat in September 2018: the month Reddit banned many QAnon related subreddits. Our results show that user migration is apparent when other communities get banned.📊📈🚫 <LINK> Last, we show that QAnon related discussions are hateful and racist. The term ""jew"" is closely related to holocaust associated words, and the terms ""masters,"" and ""puppet,"" showing that users in this community blame people of Jewish religion/descent for leading the ""deep state""🤬",https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04885,"Online fringe communities offer fertile grounds for users seeking and sharing ideas fueling suspicion of mainstream news and conspiracy theories. Among these, the QAnon conspiracy theory emerged in 2017 on 4chan, broadly supporting the idea that powerful politicians, aristocrats, and celebrities are closely engaged in a global pedophile ring. Simultaneously, governments are thought to be controlled by ""puppet masters,"" as democratically elected officials serve as a fake showroom of democracy. This paper provides an empirical exploratory analysis of the QAnon community on Voat.co, a Reddit-esque news aggregator, which has captured the interest of the press for its toxicity and for providing a platform to QAnon followers. More precisely, we analyze a large dataset from /v/GreatAwakening, the most popular QAnon-related subverse (the Voat equivalent of a subreddit), to characterize activity and user engagement. To further understand the discourse around QAnon, we study the most popular named entities mentioned in the posts, along with the most prominent topics of discussion, which focus on US politics, Donald Trump, and world events. We also use word embeddings to identify narratives around QAnon-specific keywords. Our graph visualization shows that some of the QAnon-related ones are closely related to those from the Pizzagate conspiracy theory and so-called drops by ""Q."" Finally, we analyze content toxicity, finding that discussions on /v/GreatAwakening are less toxic than in the broad Voat community. ","""Is it a Qoincidence?"": An Exploratory Study of QAnon on Voat",5,"['📢 In our latest work, \\w the usual suspects @iDRAMALab @emilianoucl @gianluca_string @jhblackb @zsavvas90, we perform a preliminary analysis of the QAnon movement on <LINK>. \nFind our preprint here 📰👇👇👇<LINK>', 'We find that the submissions in v/GreatAwakening tend to get approximately 57 upvotes and only 1.7 downvotes. On average, the /v/GreatAwakening submissions tend to be positively voted with the final vote (sum) being 59, and the median sum being ~32. https://t.co/hHlCsIBtNd', 'Alarmingly, the audience of /v/GreatAwakening consumes content from a handful of users. The top submitter is responsible for 31.47% (1.36K) submissions. Excluding the top 15 submitters, all other users only posted 31.14% (1.34K) submissions. 📊 https://t.co/9GYmSHYCRk', 'Interestingly, we observe that about 26% (932 users) of the users in our dataset registered a new account on\nVoat in September 2018: the month Reddit banned many QAnon related subreddits. Our results show that user migration is apparent when other communities get banned.📊📈🚫 https://t.co/a40wCzbWBM', 'Last, we show that QAnon related discussions are hateful and racist. The term ""jew"" is closely related to holocaust associated words, and the terms ""masters,"" and ""puppet,"" showing that users in this community blame people of Jewish religion/descent for leading the ""deep state""🤬']",20,09,1277