They beat us again. They unmasked "Q"
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OH NOOOO!! WE'RE DOOOOOMED!!!
AGAIN!
This is telling:
What they mean is: Now we have made up this BS we hope the problem will go away!
"With help from machine learning software, computer scientists may have unmasked the identity of Q, the founder of the QAnon movement. In a sprawling report published on Saturday, The New York Times shared the findings of two independent teams of forensic linguists who claim they’ve identified Paul Furber, a South African software developer who was one of the first to draw attention to the conspiracy theory, as the original writer behind Q. They say Arizona congressional candidate Ron Watkins also wrote under the pseudonym, first by collaborating with Furber and then later taking over the account when it eventually moved to post on his father’s 8chan message board."
"The conspiracy theory" these people are brain dead.
For what it's worth, the term "conspiracy theory" in academia is more neutral than you'd think. Conspiracy theories are fine. They are simply theories that conspiracies have occurred.
It was a conspiracy theory that Nixon was personally involved in the Watergate break-in. People who believed it were conspiracy theorists. When the tapes were exposed, those people weren't any less conspiracy theorists. It's just that the theory they had was proven correct. There was an actual conspiracy.
I just think its funny that they think there is only one.
Welp, we hit the loop folks (2021):
https://www.enca.com/life/swiss-text-sleuths-unpick-mystery-qanon-origins