Academic scholar Marc-André Argentino of the Global Network on Extremism & Technology is attempting to get social media accounts that are raising awareness of child sex trafficking thrown off of social media by tying them to the controversial QAnon movement.

Argentino is demonizing 114 groups that are raising awareness of child sex trafficking that he wants thrown off of social media because he claims they are affiliated with QAnon:

2/ Using @crowdtangle aggregate membership on September 16 was ~330K and a week later it is at 505k this represents growth of 3,028.66% since July 2020. The spike in the community started the week of July 26th pic.twitter.com/boh36dw3XD — Marc-André Argentino (@_MAArgentino) September 23, 2020

4/ A similar trend can be seen with interaction rates as there have been 9.22M interaction since Janurary 2020, though 8.95M of these (663k per week) have occured since July 2020. pic.twitter.com/DXcqmveth5 take our poll - story continues below Did Kyle Rittenhouse act in self defense? VOTE NOW: Did Kyle Rittenhouse act in self defense when he shot three BLM rioters?

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6/ It is very likely that the "save the/our children" narratives are not going to be sustained long term without some injection of content to feed the communities here. It is hard to determine if this has anything to do with measures put in place by Facebook at this time. — Marc-André Argentino (@_MAArgentino) September 23, 2020

8/ These groups have driven a fair amount of traffic to these QAnon/ QAnon adjacent videos in July and August. Traffic to most of this content had died down prior to the save our/the children takeover. pic.twitter.com/PuF76Gy6Xk — Marc-André Argentino (@_MAArgentino) September 23, 2020

Argentino made it clear that he is concerned with protecting potential pedophiles from repercussions from their predatory actions against children:

10/ Some of these communities have some concerning patterns of behaviors: there is some doxxing of people that "look like pedophiles", or who people claim are pedophiles without evidence, there are calls to harass them on social media and at home. — Marc-André Argentino (@_MAArgentino) September 23, 2020

12/ However, there are some groups that provide the information for the proper channels and ask members in these groups to flood the hotlines and email boxes with requests. Again with QAnon's poor research skills this is draining resources away from real and important tips — Marc-André Argentino (@_MAArgentino) September 23, 2020

14/ There are also some groups that are pretending to be CSOs or NGO working against child trafficking and soliciting donations, though they do not appear to be any real org based on some searches I did quickly yesterday. If this is the case, this is egregious behavior. — Marc-André Argentino (@_MAArgentino) September 23, 2020

He posted that he will be working on demonizing Christian, pro-life groups that are focused on stopping child sex trafficking next:

16/ there is a possibility that part of this community may shift away from QAnon and into more of the christian/pro-life communities or a symbiosis of QAnon with christian/pro-life communities. This is something to keep an eye on as I am seeing hints of it. — Marc-André Argentino (@_MAArgentino) September 23, 2020

Darren Beattie of Revolver pointed out the agenda behind Argentino’s work. Argentino is aggressively demonizing activists who are raising awareness about the exploitation of children.

Now it’s politically incorrect to be anti child trafficking because qanon—-any group opposing child trafficking evidently must be harassed monitored and censored. Incredible power grab. https://t.co/oHUDHHWh1o — Darren J. Beattie 🌐 (@DarrenJBeattie) September 24, 2020

Big League Politics has reported on how establishment politicians from both major political parties have demonized the QAnon movement in an attempt to deflect from the depravity that they are engaging in behind the scenes: