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From Trolling To Fleecing: Co-Creator Of ‘Q’ Hoax Explains Its Scary Evolution
The Federalist ^ | 10/30/2018 | Georgi Boorman

Posted on 10/30/2018 10:33:15 PM PDT by Simon Foxx

A little less than a year after the first QAnon post, which has since led hundreds of thousands of news junkies down a conspiracy rabbit hole, news correspondent Jack Posobiec from One America News Network spoke with one of the co-originators of the “Q” persona who runs a group of individuals posing as a high-level government intelligence officer. On an anonymous “free speech” platform called 8Chan, they leave thousands of riddles, “clues,” odd questions, and cryptic lines as bread crumbs for their followers to help them in their search for truth.

Many major media outlets have overviewed the nest of conspiracy theories nurtured within Q followers. While many have speculated about who is behind Q and how it came to exist, thanks to Posobiec’s extensive research and the confession of a co-creator who goes by the pseudonym “Microchip,” we now know, with a high degree of certainty, the real origin story of QAnon.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: 8chan; christinaurso; colemanrogers; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; jackposobiec; mediawingofthednc; oneamericanews; partisanmediashills; posobiec; presstitutes; q; qanon; queers; quers; smearmachine; suckers
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To: Simon Foxx

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121 posted on 10/31/2018 10:46:03 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Trump hates negative publicity, unless he generates it. -Corey Lewandowski)
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To: bagster

This article is a never-Trumper gaslighting effort. The Federalist is a never Trump publication.


122 posted on 10/31/2018 11:24:24 AM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: SubMareener

Pam’s wife is Radix, not CodeMonkey. This entire article is a fabric of lies and disinformation.


123 posted on 10/31/2018 1:01:49 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP! WWG1WGA)
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To: Chuckster
I bounced in and out of the Q threads, so maybe I missed it, but I definitely lever saw any thing even remotely resembling a request for money.

There has never, ever, been a Q post that could even remotely be construed as a solicitation for money. Q has often asked us to pray, but never to pay.

124 posted on 10/31/2018 1:03:20 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP! WWG1WGA)
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To: Simon Foxx
I have NO position in this debate, nor do I care to be involved in it.

And yet you felt compelled to post this flimsy tissue of lies. Curious.

125 posted on 10/31/2018 1:04:27 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP! WWG1WGA)
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To: Simon Foxx
Likewise I have my own thoughts about the Q phenomenon here at FR and elsewhere, which matters zero in this context.

I thought this Microchip dude turned out to be a flake and poseur back when he first popped out of the woodwork what, back in the summer?

126 posted on 10/31/2018 1:08:06 PM PDT by OKSooner
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To: Irishguy
just for my clarity, they dont have access to the 8chan version, is that it? (as in thats why they cant post with the current Q tripcode)?

The You-tubers who took over Q-anon and moved it to 8-Chan have changed the Q-anon trip-code a number of times themselves, so the original Q wouldn't know what the current Q-anon trip-code is...but that by itself wouldn't invalidate his creation story.

From a technical stand point though, the standard 8-chan tripcode is not all that secure anyway...as the folks who hacked the Q-anon id over the summer and posted their own manifesto aptly demonstrated.

127 posted on 10/31/2018 1:09:31 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: pgkdan

This entire article is a fabric of lies and disinformation.
- - - -
All this effort for a LARP? What do “they” think they will accomplish with this drivel?


128 posted on 10/31/2018 2:05:40 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: Lopeover
Hey Bags, the signed photo is now in a safety deposit box.

Smartanon.

That'll be a big deal one day. The first time the Donald told somebody.

🎃


129 posted on 10/31/2018 2:34:22 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: mac_truck; bagster
The You-tubers who took over Q-anon and moved it to 8-Chan have changed the Q-anon trip-code a number of times themselves, so the original Q wouldn't know what the current Q-anon trip-code is...but that by itself wouldn't invalidate his creation story.

Absolutely false. Youtubers never moved Q from 4chan to 8chan. That is a complete lie, nor is your claim of trip code being easy to break a truthful statement. You are just posting more lies to obfuscate the facts.

130 posted on 10/31/2018 2:38:02 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot)
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To: Simon Foxx
My comment shows a knowledge that I’ve seen FReepers who followed this “Q” discussion throwing verbal brickbats at each other on other threads

Oh, so you ARE more aware of Q than just "seeing thread titles" about Q like you originally wrote.

Like I said.

PS I’m not your “bro”.

Yea, but are you REALLY not my bro?

Aren't we all bros if you think about it?

Kinda?

131 posted on 10/31/2018 2:42:26 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: SubMareener
All this effort for a LARP? What do “they” think they will accomplish with this drivel?

Exactly what we are seeing here on FR. . . validation of those who refuse to look and validation for those who wish to denigrate those of us who do look and follow the trails Q sets out to learn the truth, refusing to think Q has to just tell it outright like a newspaper is supposed to. Both want it spoon-fed to them, they don't want work for it, and therefor won't learn how to think for themselves. This validates that by telling them what to think.

132 posted on 10/31/2018 2:45:35 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot)
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To: bagster

*lol* OK, we’re all “bros” in the human race. The few prior Q ‘threads” I saw basically pitted the “Q believers” vs “Q hoaxers”.

I perused them enough to understand there was a debate - hence my “good samaritan” gesture in posting this article.

(Which I am starting to regret doing). ;>)


133 posted on 10/31/2018 3:06:02 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: Simon Foxx
(Which I am starting to regret doing). ;>)

😉

It does get hot around here sometimes, right?

bruh?

134 posted on 10/31/2018 3:53:53 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Swordmaker; All
Youtubers never moved Q from 4chan to 8chan.

Of course they did...how else do you think it got there?

A necessary part of the scam was control of the Q-anon animation.

4-chan didn't provide a unique way to identify Q posts, so it was moved to 8-chan.

As for 8-chan security well...the Q-anon hack over the summer speaks for itself.

135 posted on 10/31/2018 4:08:42 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Simon Foxx

:)You just posted an article.Written by someone who was one sided and no research.I get it.


136 posted on 10/31/2018 5:21:34 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Fightin Whitey
Don't they teach spelling at Georgetown?

Are you a Hoya, Baggie?

137 posted on 10/31/2018 5:44:55 PM PDT by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: mac_truck; bagster; All
As for 8-chan security well...the Q-anon hack over the summer speaks for itself.

You are begging the question. This is what is called a Circular argument. . . a fallacy. You claim that QAnon was hacked after being moved to 8chan by YouTube hackers, another one of your falsehoods to prove your claims of the ease of hacking the 8chan security. Absurd.

You are also using evidence from a debunked claimant to being part of Q which has been completely shot down when he FIRST appeared with his assertions. His "facts" were and are FALSE and provably so then and now.

"Microchip," Posobiec's interviewee, is an on-line Q debunking, Twitter user who claims to be the Real Q. His attempts to prove he is Q are quite laughable as he show a depth of ignorance about Q (such as claiming that Q has been monetized and was originally intended for that purpose) that is abysmal, which alone would disqualify him from being Q. His examples from past Q Drops have always been shown to be something he could manipulate on line in archives and they don't comport with archives of Q drops kept by others significantly differing from what he posts as being originals, from what the archives show to be truly original. His claims of programing expertise, when shot down by others is always met by Microchip as claiming that he knows more about it than they do, even on simple programming basics he got completely, often laughably, wrong, which he then tries to claim is due to him being on a different platform than they are.

When called on that claim by people who work on his claimed platform, he doubled down by claiming his version was a custom formatted platform that only HE worked on so naturally it was using a different custom version of the programming language. He claims he does Q on entirely on an iOS device. If that were true, the links to YouTube Q posts would be to mobile sites, they aren’t, the URL’s are to desktop sites. It also would have NOT been able to include the extraneous spaces Q is so find of including in his drops. That is difficult to do on an iOS device which automatically eliminates more than two spaces. There were so many RED FLAGS in his claims he was laughed at. He claimed that Q would no longer be posting due to his exposé and that since he was Q, he would no longer post any more as proof of his assertion, but the very next day Q was posting again. . . contrary to this bozo Microchip's fraudulent claims.

We are far more familiar with these false assertions than are you.

138 posted on 10/31/2018 6:10:07 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot)
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To: Swordmaker

:) your so good.Q has never asked for money.He did call Jack Posobiec out for lying and showed him posting a post from Microchip,a day before he posted it.


139 posted on 10/31/2018 6:59:59 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Swordmaker
You claim that QAnon was hacked after being moved to 8chan by YouTube hackers

False...I never said Qanon was hacked by You-tubers, your cognitive dissonance must be acting up again.

Q-anon was hacked over the summer, most likely by someone with a military background....a Lima flag and a lengthy manifesto were posted using the Q tripcode. All the Q-anon trip-codes were revealed and the lax security was explained.

The You-tubers controlling the Q-anon account blamed intelligence agencies AB[C] for the attack, but its doubtful any government was involved.

This was all well documented in real time, so even though the folks controlling Q covered it up afterwords and even renumbered the drops...proof it happened exists.

This short video explains the attack in more detail and shows exactly what was posted. There's even a short tutorial from the hacker on the laxity of standard 8-chan security. <== You might learn something by watching (lol).

Q-Fraudsters HACKED on August 10th and a MESSAGE left for the Q-

I really haven't bothered to read the rest of your screed because you misrepresented what I was saying from the outset.

I also generally consider people who didn't support Trump openly during the 2016 campaign unworthy of my time, so consider this response to be an exception.

140 posted on 10/31/2018 7:38:58 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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