Remember when a Democrat tried to ban Qanon?
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/1154/text
The real nature of Qanon was more like Operation Trust, a Soviet scheme to find anti-Soviet "traitors" - they shared some truthful information that roped in some "believers". They then were fed a string of further facts, approximations and absolute BS, which made them look stupid to the average person.
That's exactly what Qanon did.
I don't think they informed many Democrats or media people about the real nature of Qanon. That would have defeated the goal.