In October 2017, a post appeared on the 4chan message board from an anonymous account calling itself “Q Clearance Patriot.” This poster, who became known as “Q,” claimed to be a high-ranking government insider with access to classified information from President Trump’s administration, about an alleged global cabal against Trump. Since then, despite many postings,
American computer entrepreneur Ron Watkins, 34, and South African tech journalists were identified as the originators of the QAnon movement, according to two separate forensic linguistic studies.