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On January 27 2021, a new pro-QAnon channel was created on the Telegram messaging app calling itself ‘British Patriots Party’. Using the logo of the anti-Muslim group Britain First and referencing the group in one of its earliest posts, it appears at first glance to be a QAnon-inspired offshoot of the British far-right organisation.

The channel is not what it seems, however. It forms part of a large network of over a hundred channels created on the platform since the start of January, each tailored to appeal to specific communities whilst promoting a new quasi-religious narrative.....

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The creator of the rapidly growing ‘Sabmyk Network’ is said to be a Berlin art dealer with a record of media manipulation

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Much of Sabmyk’s content is designed to appeal to QAnon followers; it features Covid mask scepticism, anti-vaccine conspiracies and false assertions that the 2020 US election was stolen from Trump. Some is also designed to actively recruit Britons: one Sabmyk channel, the British Patriotic Party, uses the same branding as anti-Muslim group Britain First and posts about the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.

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Gregory Davis of Hope Not Hate, which will publish its annual report into the far right on Monday, said: “His success in developing such a huge audience is a reminder that the QAnon template of anonymous online manipulation will continue to pose a threat in the years to come.”