HBO s Q: Into The Storm Exposes The Strange Truth Behind The QAnon Delusion forbes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from forbes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘Q: Into the Storm’ shows the power and danger of the internet
The other arc of the series involves trying to unveil the identity of the anonymous message board poster known as Q.
If you aren’t in for a deep dive into some of the worst parts of the internet, this may be less interesting to you, but Hoback was following this story before it went mainstream.
Thus, much of the series is pulled from extensive time spent with the founder of the imageboard 8chan, Fredrick Brennan, and the board’s operator, Jim Watkins, as well as his son (and board administrator), Ron.
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Footage has emerged of the smoking gun that the makers of a new HBO docu-series claim proves their theory that Ron Watkins - the son of 8chan founder Jim Watkins - is the man behind Q.
In an interview during the sixth and final episode of Q: Into The Storm, Ron makes an apparent slip-up by seeming to admit to being an active user of the main QAnon forum – something he had previously denied.
The conspiracy theorist, after briefly discussing his role in spreading unproved claims of voter fraud following the 2020 US election, says, It was basically three years of intelligence training, teaching normies how to do intelligence work.
On Sunday, HBO aired the final two episodes of the six-part documentary series
Q: Into the Storm, in which filmmaker Cullen Hoback explores the cancerous QAnon conspiracy theory and attempts to get to the bottom of who exactly is behind it. QAnon is an internet-fueled movement consisting of people who believe that pedophiles control the Democratic Party, Hollywood, and other major institutions, and that former President Donald Trump has been leading a covert effort in conjunction with the military to have these perverts arrested and executed. Many followers also believe that members of this cabal are Satanists who practice cannibalism and that Trump is using UFOs to fight them. The conspiracy theory has been linked to multiple instances of violence and has torn families apart. The FBI considers QAnon to be a domestic terrorism threat, and at least 34 of its adherents participated in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot.