; Whereas the FBI bases this assessment on events in which individuals committed crimes, plotted attacks, or successfully carried out deadly violence, and who—either before or after their arrests—attributed their actions to their conspiratorial beliefs ; Whereas QAnon adherents have been implicated in crimes that they claim their QAnon beliefs inspired, including— (1) a man arrested in 2018 for plotting to plant a bomb in the Illinois Capitol rotunda to make Americans aware of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory; (2) a man arrested in 2018 for using an armored car to block traffic on the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge; (3) a man in Arizona arrested in 2019 for vandalizing a Catholic church; (4) a woman in Colorado arrested in 2019 for plotting an armed raid to kidnap her child, who had been taken from her custody; (5) a man charged with the murder of an organized crime boss in New York in 2019; and (6) a woman arrested in New York with a car full of knives after posting a video accusing Joe Biden of participating in child sex trafficking and threatening to kill him; Whereas the FBI further assesses that these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread and evolve in the modern information marketplace . . . fostering anti-government sentiment, racial and religious prejudice, [and] increasing political tensions ; Whereas, according to the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy at West Point, QAnon is arguably no longer simply a fringe conspiracy theory but an ideology that has demonstrated its capacity to radicalize to violence individuals at an alarming speed ; Whereas Facebook, Twitter, and Google have removed or blocked QAnon groups and content from their platforms for violating their policies against misinformation, bullying, hate speech, and harassment; Whereas QAnon adherents have been harming legitimate efforts to combat child exploitation and sex trafficking, including by overwhelming antitrafficking hotlines with false reports