QAnon adherents may resort to violence under Biden: Report

QAnon adherents may turn to violence as they struggle to face the reality of a Joe Biden presidency, US intelligence report finds.

A United States federal intelligence report has warned that adherents to the conspiracy-theory QAnon movement could target Democrats and other political opponents with violence as the movement’s false prophecies do not come true. The report was compiled by the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security and released on Monday by Senator Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat, who said he had requested a “public assessment of the threat posed by QAnon” in December of last year. The report says that while some QAnon adherents will pull back from the movement, others “likely will begin to believe … they have an obligation to change from serving as ‘digital soldiers’ towards engaging in real world violence”.