Elon Musk Is Giving QAnon Believers Hope Just in Time for the 2024 Elections

With no new messages from Q in almost three years and former US President Donald Trump facing mounting legal woes, one would think that the QAnon political conspiracy was losing steam. “Let’s gooooooo,” wrote Erica, a member of a prominent QAnon channel on Telegram, in response to Musk’s post. QAnon believers also shared increasingly radical conspiracies about Musk, including apparent links between Musk’s tweet and the involvement of AI in the 2024 election. With the 2024 election now less than a year away, and almost a quarter of the country believing in some aspects of QAnon, it’s clear that the conspiracy movement could play a key role: Trump continues to court the group’s attention; one of their own, the QAnon Shaman, is now running for Congress; and, just last week, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a US representative from Georgia, appeared on one of the most popular online QAnon shows and discussed the conspiracy that the FBI was behind the January 6 attack on the Capitol. “While Musk isn’t explicitly endorsing QAnon, he’s making a thoughtless joke that Q believers will absolutely interpret as an endorsement,” Mike Rothschild, the author of The Storm Is Upon Us, a book about QAnon, wrote on X.