{"id":40392,"date":"2020-09-23T12:16:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=40392"},"modified":"2020-09-23T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:21:21","slug":"this-is-qanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/this-is-qanon\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is ‘QAnon’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From ABC:<\/p>\n

For nearly three years, QAnon followers have been feverishly deciphering thousands of cryptic clues and predictions posted online by the shadowy persona of “Q” at the center of a metastasizing movement that experts say is the first far-right extremist conspiracy theory in the modern era to penetrate mainstream American culture and Washington politics.<\/p>\n

Yet, a consensus of leading researchers and critics who study and debunk QAnon disinformation told ABC News that a key to identifying “Q” has been hiding in plain sight for years — on a pig farm south of Manila in the Philippines [his alleged name: James Arthur Watkins] — at least until recently. Party affiliation is no shield. After Vice President Mike Pence told CBS News on Aug. 21 that he “doesn’t know anything” about QAnon but “dismisses it out of hand,” he was accused by many QAnon adherents of being a “deep state” agent.<\/p>\n

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Wikipedia:<\/em><\/p>\n

Fredrick Brennan<\/b>\u00a0(born 1994) is an American\u00a0software developer\u00a0and\u00a0type \"PHOTO:<\/b>designer with brittle bone disease who founded the imageboard website 8chan, as a free speech friendly 4chan alternative in 2013. Following its growth in popularity, due in part to the GamerGate movement, in 2014, he cut ties with 8chan in 2016, after having a dispute with host NT Technology’s owner Jim Watkins, who is now the current proprietor of the site [and who is suspected of being “Q” or knowing him\/them well].<\/p>\n

Brennan launched\u00a08chan, also called “Infinitechan”, in October 2013, after a month of raising pledges on\u00a0Patreon. It was intended as a “free-speech-friendly 4chan alternative”, where discussion boards would be managed by the creating users, not by site moderators.[2]<\/sup>[14]<\/sup> It started with a small but loyal following. Brennan was criticized for 8chan’s\u00a0pedophilia-related boards; Brennan has said he personally finds such content reprehensible, but stood by his refusal to remove content that did not violate United States law.<\/p>\n

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