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8chan owner Jim Watkins: From helicopter repairman to leader of the Internet's 'darkest reaches' - The Washington Post
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Owner of online message board 8chan called to testify about sharing of white supremacist content | Daily Mail Online
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Ron Watkins, the man widely rumored to have started the QAnon movement, said he is running for Congress
The Other 98% - This computer nerd living off his father's money in a dumpy apartment in the Philippines just outed himself as “Q”. The shadowy internet poster created the conspiracy theory
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