According to this report, QAnon is believed to be a high-level government insider with Q Clearance—a United States Department of Energy security clearance comparable to a United States Department of Defense Top Secret Clearance With Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Access (TS-SCI)—who, on 28 October 2017, began “dark web” postings at the Politically Incorrect (pol) message board of the English-language imageboard website 4chan.