Breaking News: Exclusive QAnon Interview
Posted by The ATOL Journalism Team, AP, etc on Aug 24th 2020
https://antitrump.com/news/QAnonExclusive/
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Are they going to try and resurect the muhChatlogs Micro/butthurtJackPasobiac Q story?
looks like we have been duped frens. Q is this dude who worked at 4chan with Pamplet (that might be a new twist, at least to me. advice: photoshop Pamplet into that Jerrome Corsi pic in Poland). He also worked with ASSANGE, but was sabatoging wikileaks from the inside.
Q: How did you become involved in the Q movement?
A: I first became involved in internet counter-culture through Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc), a hacktivist group that developed Back Orifice (a computer program that allowed a user to control a computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system from a remote location) and released it at the DEFCON 6 hacker convention in 1998. When WikiLeaks first went live, I was one of the individuals tasked with organizing the submissions and improving the tagging system. At that time, I and a few others were working directly with Julian Assange, whose handle was “Firefly.” At one point, our team disagreed with him over whether some information (such as a 747 maintenance manual that could be used to damage a commercial aircraft) should be released at all, with Julian asserting that all information should be open. Some of our team, however, felt that since we were in charge of the releases, we had a responsibility to protect information that could be used in acts of domestic terrorism. Specifically, with the 747 manual, members of our team felt we were crossing a line.
: So we know that QAnon started on the 4chan forums. Can you tell us more about how exactly it got started?
A: Initially it was kind of a push back on the massive propaganda machine that was working throughout the 2016 election cycle. Myself and six other individuals had noticed a very real disinformation campaign going back to 2015 that appeared to be a coordinated effort between US individuals and an entity that existed outside of the United States. So we knew what was possible. We also had knowledge of several different “Anons” that had previously posted to 4chan claiming to be high-level members of various agencies (CIA Anon, HLA Anon, FBI Anon), all of which were proven fake. They either couldn’t handle the flood of user questions, or they were unable to produce “proof” in the form of photographs, etc. when asked. It was then that the idea of Q was introduced.
Q: What was the original concept behind Q?
A: One of our members, "Pamphlet" floated the idea of making our own “Anon.” It was basically a prank on the /pol/ subforum, since /pol/ is more or less a grooming farm for white nationalists to spread their message and ideals to an age range of 14-28. There were so many wild accusations going around in the political forums, we just figured we could get more mileage out of it as a joke. We came up with a story so wild, we thought no one would believe it. We were “jumping the shark”, if you will. Just trying to get this bug in everyone’s ear that a high-ranking member of the administration was both a 4chan user and an ally in some gigantic war that no one knew about. The model for our “Anon” was largely based on the idea of someone like Stephen Miller. Where the previous attempts to troll /pol/ had failed, we were prepared. We knew we needed some form of authority because the same kind of thing had been attempted before, and we wanted it to be more absurd than that.
At some point, one of the 4chan users asked for verification that Q was sitting in Air Force One, since the dispatches had implied Q had access to it. I had a friend from college who actually went on to become a White House pool photographer. They happened to be on board AF1 going to a rally. We had them take a picture with a date and timestamp and posted it to the account with the Q tripcode. That’s all it took for the individuals on /pol/ to believe the story and start running with it.
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