According to counterextremism experts, limiting QAnon's access to traditional social media platforms will help stop the spread of the ideology to a wider audience, but it will not stop the group from continuing to organize and finding new ways to recruit. In the longer term, the threat of QAnon and similar groups is evolving from individual incidents of homegrown extremism to a mass movement, Schanzer explained. Trump rejected several opportunities to denounce the group or distance himself from it and at times shared QAnon content on social media.Eric Trump, as well as Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn have also courted the conspiracy movement.