Speaker 1: Q and On is the world's largest online political conspiracy movement.
Speaker 1: Followers believe someone code named Q is provided them with
Speaker 1: secret information from inside the White House. No one really
Speaker 1: knows the real identity of Q, though we aim to
Speaker 1: change that. I'm Jake Hanrahan and this is Q Clearance,
Speaker 1: a podcast series aimed unmasking the true identity of Q.
Speaker 1: This is brought to you by I R Radio and
Speaker 1: Q Dayta Media. In this first episode, will be getting
Speaker 1: to grips with what Q and On is for those
Speaker 1: that don't know, looking into the history of this strange movement,
Speaker 1: and hearing from some of the main researchers involved in
Speaker 1: trying to dismantle Q and On. On juneen, a man
Speaker 1: blocked a bridge near the Hoover Dam with a homemade
Speaker 1: armored vehicle. Inside. The man held firearms and nine hundred
Speaker 1: rounds about nisition So now in FBI custody tonight after
Speaker 1: blocking traffic on the Hoover damn bypassed bridge with a truck,
Speaker 1: Arizona troopers say Right had a handgun and rifle inside
Speaker 1: the truck and a note that read released the o
Speaker 1: I G Report. According to police, he did this as
Speaker 1: a protest, demanding that a report he'd heard about via
Speaker 1: an online conspiracy be released to the public. This conspiracy
Speaker 1: theory started in October. That's when someone calling themselves Q
Speaker 1: Clearance Patriot first wrote a public message on the notorious
Speaker 1: for Chan website. The original poster, now known as Q,
Speaker 1: inferred that they were a US government insider with knowledge
Speaker 1: that would expose a deep state conspiracy within American politics.
Speaker 1: This spawned what is now the Q and On phenomena,
Speaker 1: the conspiracy theory so complex that it's formed a cult
Speaker 1: like following. Many of its followers think Q is associated
Speaker 1: with Donald Trump and that he's cryptically community cating with
Speaker 1: them via obscule image boards online. Hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: people across the world believe in this now, and as
Speaker 1: a result, Q and On has torn families apart, led
Speaker 1: people to violence, and it's even infiltrating the highest levels
Speaker 1: of government with disinformation. Now, more than seventy U S
Speaker 1: congressional candidates of either shared or outright endorsed Q and
Speaker 1: on material, and President Trump himself is even given availed
Speaker 1: thumbs up to the movement. During the pandemic, the Q
Speaker 1: and On movement has been appears to be getting a
Speaker 1: lot of followers. Can you talk about what you think
Speaker 1: about that and what you have to say to people
Speaker 1: who are following this movement right now? Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know much about the movement other than I understand they
Speaker 1: like me very much, which I appreciate. But I don't
Speaker 1: know much about the movement. It's difficult. That's the cross
Speaker 1: of the theory. It is this belief that you are
Speaker 1: secretly saving the world from this satanic cult of pedophiles
Speaker 1: and cannibals. Does that sound like something you are behind
Speaker 1: or I haven't. I haven't heard that. But is that
Speaker 1: supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing?
Speaker 1: If if I can help save the world from As
Speaker 1: I've already mentioned, outside of what the conspiracy community is saying,
Speaker 1: nobody quite knows the true identity of Q. We want
Speaker 1: to change that with this series, so we'll be looking
Speaker 1: into the many different theories surrounding this, such as the
Speaker 1: idea that the Q account has changed hands, that it's
Speaker 1: the left wing hoax, and that it's been a way
Speaker 1: for online grifters simply to make money off of adverts
Speaker 1: on the websites. We're going to get into the intricacies
Speaker 1: of what Q and on is and isn't what the
Speaker 1: followers believe in trying to wrap our heads around the
Speaker 1: confusing Q map, and I'm going to try and attempt
Speaker 1: to unravel some of the mysteries surrounding Q and On. Now,
Speaker 1: for me, this is something a little bit different because
Speaker 1: primarily I'm what you might call a war report. I've
Speaker 1: spent the last seven years working from various frontline battles
Speaker 1: across the world. I've reported from Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Southeast Turkey, Palestine,
Speaker 1: all over the place, and I currently run my own
Speaker 1: grassroots conflict journalism platform called popular Front. But as one
Speaker 1: as the war stuff, I've always been very online, spending
Speaker 1: hours and hours on obscure message boards in Internet rabbit
Speaker 1: holes and looking into the proliferation of conspiracy theories. I
Speaker 1: know a bit, but I definitely need help with all
Speaker 1: the Q and on stuff, so I've recruited Sarah Hightower
Speaker 1: to assist with research. She's too shy to admit it
Speaker 1: out in the open, but Sarah Hightower is one of
Speaker 1: the best researchers of online extremism in America. She's completely
Speaker 1: self taught, and in my opinion, understands Q and On
Speaker 1: better than any of the academics and the welfared extremism
Speaker 1: experts working as talking heads for TV news. She cares
Speaker 1: deeply for the people caught up in this, and after
Speaker 1: years recreationally online in some of the most fringe parts
Speaker 1: of the Internet, Sarah effectively speaks the language fluently as
Speaker 1: I do. She thinks it's incredibly important to shine a
Speaker 1: light on who actually is behind Q and on, whoever
Speaker 1: the hell it is. They've been lying to people, manipulating people,
Speaker 1: radicalizing people, and tearing families apart for like two years unchecked,
Speaker 1: So I think finding out who it is, who it was,
Speaker 1: and who it has been is very important because there's
Speaker 1: got to be some accountability. She's very eccentric, a bit
Speaker 1: of a web and it's kind of weird, and I
Speaker 1: don't say that in a bad way. I think that's
Speaker 1: what makes her so good. Sarah has also seen firsthand
Speaker 1: the effects of Q and On. Early on mid to
Speaker 1: I had a friend of mine her parents stopped talking
Speaker 1: to her in real life, so she reached out to
Speaker 1: me and she said, Hey, do you think this Q
Speaker 1: and on thing is occult? And I was like, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about and she started explaining that like
Speaker 1: her parents had started reading these things called Q drops
Speaker 1: because apparently someone in the government with like a special
Speaker 1: clearance was sending these super secret messages. And she said
Speaker 1: that her parents had stopped talking to her and that
Speaker 1: her stepdad, I think, just spent all of his time
Speaker 1: watching Q tubers. I was like, what is a Q tube?
Speaker 1: And so that's how I learned about it, and then
Speaker 1: I tried to help her with her family, and that's
Speaker 1: when I was like, oh, this is this is actually
Speaker 1: like a court called, isn't it? And it is so
Speaker 1: clearly we're both critical of Q and on. Sarah thinks
Speaker 1: it's some kind of cult. I think it's a bit
Speaker 1: of a madness. But to give the listeners an idea
Speaker 1: of what direction I'm taking with this investigation, it's worth
Speaker 1: knowing now that I am not a supporter of Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1: I am not a supporter of Donald Trump or any
Speaker 1: of the others you've probably noticed British and whilst I'm
Speaker 1: not a particular fan of any politicianal government, I don't
Speaker 1: really have a dog in this race. I am not
Speaker 1: a political but I'm just not are interested in the
Speaker 1: shrill partisan politics that have seemingly taken over in the US.
Speaker 1: That's what it looks like over here across the pond.
Speaker 1: Of course, a lot of people say, what do you know,
Speaker 1: You're British? Forget about that, don't worry. This is about
Speaker 1: the Q and On investigation. Why I am interested in
Speaker 1: is how Q and on grew so huge so quickly,
Speaker 1: and who's actually behind this. This podcast is not trying
Speaker 1: to mark, demonize, or laugh at Q and On believers directly.
Speaker 1: What we are trying to do is lay out why
Speaker 1: anyone that's involved in Q and On, is Q and
Speaker 1: On curious or has a family member set adrift with
Speaker 1: this conspiracy, why they should consider rethinking their positions that
Speaker 1: and to simply report on our findings whilst looking into
Speaker 1: the true identity of Q. We're not going to scream
Speaker 1: at you, tell you're insane or glow, but we are
Speaker 1: going to point out with evidence why we think Q
Speaker 1: and On is a complete hoax. First things first, for
Speaker 1: anyone who's out there still saying, what the funk even
Speaker 1: his Q and On, let's tackle that bit to begin with. Now. Personally,
Speaker 1: I would describe T and on as the largest somewhat
Speaker 1: decentralized online conspiracy community on Earth right now. As I
Speaker 1: mentioned at the start, the followers believe that the Donald
Speaker 1: Trump administration will bring upon a new political age where
Speaker 1: Democrats are hanged for treason, leftists around it up and imprisoned,
Speaker 1: and a political deep state trying to rule America from
Speaker 1: within will be defeated by Trump and Q. They think
Speaker 1: Q is a high level political operative within the circles
Speaker 1: of the White House. They think that he's chosen image
Speaker 1: boards such as four chan and h chan to secretly
Speaker 1: relay information about the aforementioned plan to wreck the deep State. Now,
Speaker 1: I know that sounds outlandish, but remember hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of people across the world believe in this now, and
Speaker 1: big political figures in America have been openly speaking about
Speaker 1: que as if it's a normal thing. The messages that
Speaker 1: Q posts are known as que drops and are often cryptic.
Speaker 1: They predict things that never happened and availed in this
Speaker 1: strange speak of a misdirection. Now, it might sound a
Speaker 1: bit outlandish and kind of strange, but all of this
Speaker 1: was incubated in the world of online image boards. You
Speaker 1: might have heard of them, the chance four chan, h
Speaker 1: and etcetera. Let's scale back a bit to explain what
Speaker 1: these actually are and how they became the battleground for
Speaker 1: Q now, I would describe these image boards as, arguably,
Speaker 1: for better or worse, the last bastions of the early
Speaker 1: wild West version of the Internet that many of us
Speaker 1: grew up with. I'm thirty years old. I spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time as about fourteen fifteen, even younger on
Speaker 1: the Internet before all the kind of rules came in,
Speaker 1: before social media relatic over, and you know it was,
Speaker 1: it was a much more fun time. Um. But if
Speaker 1: you've never seen one of these image boards before, it's
Speaker 1: kind of an anonymous Internet bulletin board where you can
Speaker 1: chat as well, so users will post up topics based
Speaker 1: on their own interests. Each post needs to be started
Speaker 1: with an image. Replies create a thread which is eventually deleted.
Speaker 1: Nothing is archived on the actual image board itself. And
Speaker 1: trust me, fortune is big and very influential on Internet culture,
Speaker 1: even if you've never heard of it before. With around
Speaker 1: twenty two million unique visitors a month, four chan is
Speaker 1: the most well known and most infamous image board. It
Speaker 1: was first launched in October two thousand and three by
Speaker 1: American programmer Christopher Pool, also known as Moot. Moot, ran
Speaker 1: four channel for eleven years before stepping down to go
Speaker 1: work for Google. Fortune began as a place to share
Speaker 1: anime images, and it quickly built its own online culture,
Speaker 1: almost indecipherable to people not familiar with it. Many memes,
Speaker 1: internet raids, and historic online pranks were founded on the
Speaker 1: boards of four Chan. In recent years, though, four Chan
Speaker 1: became known as a place that incubated the new Old
Speaker 1: Right in the US, it was linked with scandal after scandal,
Speaker 1: as school shooters, Nazi terrorists, and murderers all began posting
Speaker 1: up on four Chan. Despite this, most of the boards
Speaker 1: are actually completely harmless. For example, there's a board for origami,
Speaker 1: there's a board for Pokemon, cooking the i y. It's
Speaker 1: all there. It's not all bad. The oddity of the chance, though,
Speaker 1: is that all these running tandem with boards that promote
Speaker 1: far right agendas, sexual abuse and anime a porn. Now.
Speaker 1: I know that sounds outlandish, but remember hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of people across the world believe in this now, and
Speaker 1: big political figures in America have been openly speaking about
Speaker 1: que as if it's a normal thing. Trump's regular interaction
Speaker 1: with Q and On followers on Twitter is another thing
Speaker 1: that gives them belief that this is all real. For example,
Speaker 1: in July, he retweeted fourteen tweets from an account supporting
Speaker 1: Q and On. Now, obviously Trump isn't going to look
Speaker 1: at the bios and the accounts of the people he retweets.
Speaker 1: He probably should seem as he's the president, but he
Speaker 1: isn't going to do that. Q and On followers don't
Speaker 1: see it as a coincidence. They think it's him saying yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you, and that adds more gravity to the
Speaker 1: messages that Q puts out online. These messages that Q
Speaker 1: posts are known as Q drops. They predict things that
Speaker 1: never happen and availed in this strange speak of a misdirection.
Speaker 1: Q and Ons think this is all part of the plan,
Speaker 1: though for d Chess at its most intelligent, oh when.
Speaker 1: There's also a large helping of deep state pedophile theories
Speaker 1: to Q and On, some of which are based in
Speaker 1: the truth of Jeffrey Epstein's horrific elitist pedophile crimes, but
Speaker 1: most of which are based on complete fantasy and rampant speculation.
Speaker 1: For example, I was watching a prominent Q and on
Speaker 1: YouTuber a while ago, and he said that him and
Speaker 1: many other Q and on followers believe that there's literally
Speaker 1: a video of Hillary Clinton executing a child, cutting off
Speaker 1: the child's face and wearing it as a mask. Somehow
Speaker 1: such a video is actually never been released to a
Speaker 1: seen yet the Q and on's are adamant that it exists.
Speaker 1: It's deeply disturbing stuff at times. Now, that's my basic
Speaker 1: explanation of Q and on and the various facets to
Speaker 1: what they believe. But let's hear from Travis view. Travis
Speaker 1: is part of Q and on, Anonymous, a podcast that
Speaker 1: spent years looking into Q and It's different ideas. I
Speaker 1: was rabit as both a very sort of complex meta
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory that kind of connects every other conspiracy theory
Speaker 1: under its broad kind of umbrella. And also they kind
Speaker 1: of a community of of people who believe in this
Speaker 1: particular extremist worldview. I mean, the broad narrative adheres to
Speaker 1: a lot of classic New World Order conspiracy theories. They
Speaker 1: believe that the world controlled by this satanic cabal pedophiles
Speaker 1: who hold all the lever's power, including entertainment media and politicians,
Speaker 1: And they further believe that that that this cabal with
Speaker 1: continued indefinitely, were not for the election of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: They believe that Trump, uh, you know, knows all about
Speaker 1: the cabal. In some instances, they believe that Trump has
Speaker 1: been planning for decades to assume the presidency to help
Speaker 1: take down take down this cabal. And they further believe
Speaker 1: that you know, Trump is uh you know, with the
Speaker 1: help of this high level group of military intelligence officials
Speaker 1: known as Q Team, is send the outcoded messages about
Speaker 1: the secret operation on these image boards. Travis has done
Speaker 1: so much work in too q and On exposing the
Speaker 1: many holes in their theories that he's actually become a
Speaker 1: kind of enemy of the movement that often tweet about
Speaker 1: him angrily and take the piss out of him and
Speaker 1: his colleagues on YouTube videos all the rest of it.
Speaker 1: They don't like him now. Travis thinks that q and
Speaker 1: on account has changed hands several times from its inception
Speaker 1: on four Chan in two now. You know, even even
Speaker 1: if we we are kind of shaky on the details
Speaker 1: of who exactly was the original cue poster and who
Speaker 1: is now the the author of the que raps, I
Speaker 1: do not think it's the same person. The way that
Speaker 1: Q and on followers determined what is and isn't a
Speaker 1: que drop, as in, was it from que? Was it
Speaker 1: someone pretending to be him is by using something called
Speaker 1: a trip code. Will go deeper into that in a
Speaker 1: later episode, but essentially, a trip code allows an anonymous
Speaker 1: user to be semi identified online. Q and On's checked
Speaker 1: the Q trip code and boom to them, they know
Speaker 1: it's him. The Q and on trip code has changed
Speaker 1: once or twice, and there's other people in the Q
Speaker 1: team's sphere of influence that have different trip codes determining
Speaker 1: their roles. For example, many Q and ons think another
Speaker 1: poster called Q plus is Donald Trump himself. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: really think that he's out there doing that. One and
Speaker 1: on YouTuber called Craig Mason I watched has said it's
Speaker 1: completely obvious that Q plus is Trump because he wants
Speaker 1: kind of sort of made this Q and A plus
Speaker 1: symbol in the air at one of his events whilst
Speaker 1: pointing to someone in the crowd. Um, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: weird that Travis of you is not convinced. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: Trump does this thing at rallies where he points at
Speaker 1: people where he points out a group of people by
Speaker 1: waving his finger in the air. Uh, and and he
Speaker 1: got So the QUA community got got the idea of um,
Speaker 1: they that this is a secret signal to the Q
Speaker 1: and that community. I mean, I don't see it. It
Speaker 1: looks like a circle to me. Yeah, it looks more
Speaker 1: like a circle. Yeah. Yeah, but but it Yeah, they
Speaker 1: just got into the got into this. Uh, this this
Speaker 1: idea that like basically every gesture, every sort of subtle
Speaker 1: sign that Trump gives off is somehow validating to their
Speaker 1: world view. So as you see. The thing about Q
Speaker 1: and on that has helped some of the wild theories
Speaker 1: grow is that it doesn't take a lot for believers
Speaker 1: to see confirmation in the real world. So they'll see
Speaker 1: a Q post and then often shoehorn in an offline
Speaker 1: event such as a throwaway typo in a tweet or
Speaker 1: a hand gesture from Trump to prove that Q is
Speaker 1: who they claim it to be. After all, Q often
Speaker 1: says there are no coincidences, so then the followers think, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not a coincidence that was meant for us. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like if you look at panned war paper
Speaker 1: long enough, you'll see a face in it. The face
Speaker 1: isn't meant to be there, It isn't really there, but
Speaker 1: somehow you can see it. It's the same kind of
Speaker 1: thing you catch my drift. So this all ties back
Speaker 1: into the image boards being the place where Q speaks.
Speaker 1: They have a culture of mystery and far fetched ideas
Speaker 1: that are often taken seriously. Even through a hail of
Speaker 1: cynicism and people throwing insults at the original poster, people
Speaker 1: do still often take a lot of what is going
Speaker 1: out there seriously, even if it seems like everybody is
Speaker 1: telling them to go funk themselves. Now, you might be
Speaker 1: thinking that four chan hardly seems like a place where
Speaker 1: you'd expect a highly intelligent White House insider to go
Speaker 1: to to spread information that would ultimately help save America.
Speaker 1: According to the two followers, at least, what's more unusual
Speaker 1: is that q quickly immigrated to an even darker image board,
Speaker 1: h Chan. H chan is like four chan's even more
Speaker 1: fucked up evil isn't like for cha, and it had
Speaker 1: a similar set up with the image board and what
Speaker 1: have you, but it devolved into something even worse. Specifically,
Speaker 1: it became a place for anonymous users to discuss the
Speaker 1: sharing of child abuse images pedophiles were actively posting on
Speaker 1: h h and before it was removed from the Internet
Speaker 1: by its web hosting provider. It's now called a coon,
Speaker 1: but we'll get onto that in another episode. Will also
Speaker 1: speak about the history of h chan and how it
Speaker 1: became at the way it is, But first let's hear
Speaker 1: from Hun's creator, Frederick Brennan. I had kind of always
Speaker 1: been involved in the like alternate four chan universe. There's
Speaker 1: all these small image boards that don't really get any
Speaker 1: media attention or they're not really noticed outside, like very
Speaker 1: kind of people that are into internet culture. You know,
Speaker 1: you have like seven chan, four chan, so you get
Speaker 1: like all of these small sites. So, uh, I was
Speaker 1: basically like a web developer, and my day job was
Speaker 1: doing just freelance web development. And since I was already
Speaker 1: so into image boards, I became kind of friends with
Speaker 1: every image board admin. You know, at the time, I
Speaker 1: don't want to toot my own horn, but they knew
Speaker 1: that I was kind of a good programmer. Now, despite
Speaker 1: what I told you about h and just before Frederick
Speaker 1: started speaking there, keep in mind that Frederick Brennan didn't
Speaker 1: create h h and for pedophiles, and he is no
Speaker 1: longer in control of it. The Watkins family took the
Speaker 1: image board over in. Watkins will be mentioned a lot
Speaker 1: throughout this series later on, but for now keep that
Speaker 1: name in your head. H and basically started after I
Speaker 1: had a mushroom trip and uh, I just thought it
Speaker 1: would be really cool to have like this site that
Speaker 1: was like read it and watching and combined. But I
Speaker 1: didn't have any visions in the beginning. I didn't think
Speaker 1: it was ever going to be popular. So let's back
Speaker 1: up a second and ask the question you all might
Speaker 1: be wondering. Why the fuck would Q and on a
Speaker 1: movement so determined to tear down a political deep state
Speaker 1: with links to a supposed child sex trafficking cabal, except
Speaker 1: that its leader drop his leaked info on a website
Speaker 1: that allows pedos to communicate freely with each other. It
Speaker 1: makes no sense. It would be like having an environmentalist
Speaker 1: give a speech at a shell oil conference or something.
Speaker 1: But if you ask Q and On's they'll tell you
Speaker 1: that it's all simply part of the plan, one of
Speaker 1: their many mantras. And even though they wouldn't say this,
Speaker 1: perhaps the plan from the outside at least looks simply
Speaker 1: to be a way for them to achieve their political
Speaker 1: utopia by any means necessary. Any failed predict chin can
Speaker 1: be explained away with the plan. A clear fake post
Speaker 1: becomes a clever red herring with the plan. When Q
Speaker 1: posted his first ever drop on four chan on October seventeen,
Speaker 1: saying Hillary Clinton will be arrested between seven forty five
Speaker 1: am to eight thirty a m e s t. On
Speaker 1: Monday the morning on October thirteen, and it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: That was all part of the plan. To Hillary was
Speaker 1: not arrested, None of that happened. But to Q and On,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. They can explain away anything in this sense.
Speaker 1: As Sarah said earlier, Q and On has become cult
Speaker 1: like in some way, like most conspiracy theories, and arguably
Speaker 1: with most cults, there is a final end game for
Speaker 1: Q and On. It's the so called plan that we've mentioned.
Speaker 1: I asked Travis's view about this. I've never really seen
Speaker 1: them explicitly point out what the plan is. Now. I
Speaker 1: know they have the idea of getting everybody out and
Speaker 1: trying everybody for treason and hanging them um, but that
Speaker 1: is not a plan. That's like a goal, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: is there any indication to what they actually think the
Speaker 1: plan is? No, I no, No. This is the funniest part.
Speaker 1: The plan that they're trusting is secret um so so,
Speaker 1: so they don't know what the plan is, but there
Speaker 1: they know they have to trust it because they think
Speaker 1: it's in like I said, they think it's in Trump's hands.
Speaker 1: They think it's in military intelligence hands. They don't know
Speaker 1: what the plan is, but they they're very convinced that
Speaker 1: there is a plan and it's going to result in,
Speaker 1: like you said, the the executions that they want, the
Speaker 1: the sort of return to the world that they want
Speaker 1: to see, I mean love them really believe that there's
Speaker 1: going to be utopia. They think there are hidden cures
Speaker 1: to cancer and other diseases that will be revealed. They
Speaker 1: think that this this fake law called the SARA is
Speaker 1: going to get past and make everyone rich. Uh. They
Speaker 1: think you know that, you know that all the everyone
Speaker 1: will kind of real eyes that they were rail along
Speaker 1: and all their bluepilled NORMI lib friends will come crawling
Speaker 1: to them and saying I was so wrong and I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry, You're so smart. Uh. You know, they really
Speaker 1: think that the world's can be a better place. But
Speaker 1: because of this plan, so they trust it even though
Speaker 1: they don't know where it is really. So that is
Speaker 1: Q and on Internet image boards, Donald Trump, conspiracy theories,
Speaker 1: and blind faith, all meeting under the same umbrella, radicalizing
Speaker 1: each other further and following an anonymous leader online. It's
Speaker 1: potentially quite dangerous. Just remember the man in the armored
Speaker 1: vehicle on the Hoover Dam Bridge. And the run up
Speaker 1: to the US election, Q and on is being promoted
Speaker 1: more and more. The followers thing they're going to make
Speaker 1: America great again again and have been spreading increasingly more
Speaker 1: erratic conspiracies about election night. As a result, Facebook has
Speaker 1: just banned all talk of Q and on on its
Speaker 1: platform after allowing it to flourish for years. This will
Speaker 1: likely push Q and on deeper underground, perhaps further increasing
Speaker 1: its radicalization. I think it's more important now than ever
Speaker 1: to truly dig up the ground and show who's the
Speaker 1: controller behind the Q and on conspiracy theory. In the
Speaker 1: next episode, we're going to look into the theory that
Speaker 1: Q and on is a prank led by a whole
Speaker 1: group of people supposed left wing activists. Due Clearance is
Speaker 1: brought to you by I Heart Radio and co dat
Speaker 1: Our Media. I'm Jake Hanrahan. You can find me online
Speaker 1: at Jake Underscore hand Rahan. That's h A N A
Speaker 1: h A M. This episode was produced by myself with
Speaker 1: fact checking by Sarah Hightower. The music is by Sam
Speaker 1: Black and the sound levels were mixed by Thomas Griffin
Speaker 1: at Splicing Block, sat In