Disney declined to comment on the QAnon discussion. A key focus for investors, though, has been the company’s streaming business, especially since Netflix Inc.’s earnings disaster last week. The shares already were under pressure before the DeSantis feud erupted, and Disney’s 25% drop this year through Tuesday was more than twice as deep as that of the S&P 500 Index. His spokeswoman said the governor “doesn’t take cues” from the websites popular with QAnon adherents. DeSantis signed legislation on April 22 dissolving a special municipal district Disney has used to operate its theme parks in Florida since the late 1960s. “It’s all nonsense, but Q believers love this kind of thing, because it gives them something to fight against,” said Mike Rothschild, author of “The Storm Is Upon Us,” a book about QAnon.ĭisney had already drawn the ire of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and other conservatives over its opposition to a schools bill banning discussion of sexual orientation among the youngest students in the state.
Some of the commentators have even taken a page from the meme stock movement, sharing half-baked strategies to tank Disney’s shares. While many of the posts have been taken down and debunked by websites such as Politifact and, that hasn’t slowed the vitriol against the company on the forums and Telegram channels where believers in QAnon operate.
