A crackpot conspiracy theory promoted by QAnon followers linking a tweet from former FBI director James Comey to an imagined warning about an imagined Jihadi attack triggered the shutdown of a school fundraiser in a small Northern California town. “In the current political and social climate, schools and communities must take into consideration matters never before imagined,” organizers said in a statement scuttling the Blue Marble Jubilee by the Grass Valley Charter School Foundation. They canceled the event “out of an abundance of caution,” the statement noted. Conspiracy theorists on Twitter raised the possibility of a terror attack the day after Comey posted a humorous tweet last month listing the “five jobs I’ve had,” one of countless similar tweets by myriad users that are part of an ongoing Twitter gimmick. The FF in the conspiracy tweets means “false flag” in QAnon code, meaning Comey’s tweet is not what it appears to be.

Source: Huffington Post May 10, 2019 00:22 UTC