8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (12)
#11322351 at 2020-10-28 14:16:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14462: Happy Anniversary, Q! Edition
https://twitter.com/TheOndrakGuy/status/1321403869583257600
proud to fakebunk: Joe Ondrak from logically.ai
#11184119 at 2020-10-21 04:22:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14295: Consider What You Now Know To Be True Edition
Logically.ai was the one who found Vanwatech was linked to 8kun and other sites and exposed Jim Watkins
Investigation by Nick Backovic and Joe Ondrak.
Supporting research by Kristina Gildejeva.
***
A Logically Investigation reveals that QAnon communications are being consolidated under the control of Jim Watkins, through US based hosting company VanwaTech.
Based in Vancouver, Washington, VanwaTech hosts only a handful of websites unrelated to QAnon, including the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer.
The connection with Watkins was previously assumed, but our investigation reveals concrete evidence.
VanwaTech also hosts several phishing sites posing as UK banks and cellular phone service providers, aiming to defraud customers of money.
Since the removal of QMap, VanwaTech's operators have made a concerted effort to develop the company into a safe haven for the aggregator sites that disseminate the conspiracy material at the heart of QAnon.
Creator of 8chan Fredrick Brennan, who has long disavowed the platform and been working to expose Jim Watkins's involvement in the spread and weaponization of QAnon, told Logically that although there's been speculation that Watkins's ties to VanwaTech amounted to more than just shared interests and a client-business relationship, these assertions have lacked substantial evidence until now.
*Logically reached out to Nick Lim and the developers known as ResignationAnon and DevAnon. None have taken the opportunity to comment as of the time of publication.
https://www.logically.ai/articles/exclusive-logically-investigation-uncovers-qanon-central-hub-hosting-phishing-scams-direct-ties-to-jim-watkins
Some serious TDS…
#10984405 at 2020-10-08 19:07:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14050: Infiltration Not Invasion Edition
Logically.ai at it again….this time bashing on Vanwatech, a CDN, hosting, and DDOS protection service
Bad actors are use various server hosting providers to host their sites, similar to criminals opening bank accounts at bank institutions without the bank cluing in on it. One bad actor was using Vanwatech to host a phishing website.
Senior Editor Nick Backovic calls out the different websites that use Vanwatech's services; some of them are related to Patriots spreading the truth. He equates Vanwatech as irresponsible. Yet he does not acknowledge that bad actors like agitators will use the same services as honest citizens. Maybe Backovic should do the same and investigate other web hosting and CDS. I'm sure he'll find more websites of bad actors and then his logic will not hold.
Backovic then lets his colleague Joe Ondrak, 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan, BBC Monitoring and BBC World reporter Shayan Sardarizadeh, NBC News reporters Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny, and Bloomberg reporter William Turton.
There are culprits everywhere. Culprits use the same service providers as innocent citizens. Logical fallacy.
Symptom =/= Root cause.
One data point =/= The truth. You need multiple data points from multiple angles in order for your hypothesis to be qualified.
https://twitter.com/nickbackovic/status/1313570540913922048
#10940723 at 2020-10-06 02:25:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13995 Anons on the job Edition
>>10940524
>>10940530
>Qresear.ch
I don't see any purge, but this has been posted near the top for a while now.
Logically.ai
You may remember the doxxing of the Qmap.pub owner - today (Oct. 2nd, 2020) i received the following email:
"My name is [censored] and I'm a disinformation researcher at a website called Logically. We recently did a story on the QAnon aggregator site QMap, in which we tied the identity of the website operator to an info security specialist from New Jersey.
We're currently doing a piece on QAnon aggregators past and present. According to our information, you are linked to the Qresear.ch aggregator.
I was wondering if we could ask you a few questions about this. Obviously, if you're concerned about having your name out there, we're happy to discuss those concerns and see what we can do about it. Let me know your thoughts and if you'd be willing to arrange a phone call."
You may have realized it: "disinformation researcher"…
UPDATE on Oct. 4th, 2020:
logically.ai
Lyric Jain
Kristina Gildejeva
Joe Ondrak
https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/10905730.html#10906466
https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/10907003.html#10907587
thank you, anons!
btw:
Jul. 13th, 2020: "Fake news detection startup Logically raises ?2.77 million to prepare for US elections"
Sept. 14th, 2020: "This AI startup is tackling the coronavirus disinformation deluge"
Sept. 28th, 2020: "Logically To Live Fact Check U.S. Presidential Debates"
#10940632 at 2020-10-06 02:19:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13995 Anons on the job Edition
>>10940524
>>10940530
>Qresear.ch
I don't see any purge, but this has been posted near the top for a while now.
Logically.ai
You may remember the doxxing of the Qmap.pub owner - today (Oct. 2nd, 2020) i received the following email:
"My name is [censored] and I'm a disinformation researcher at a website called Logically. We recently did a story on the QAnon aggregator site QMap, in which we tied the identity of the website operator to an info security specialist from New Jersey.
We're currently doing a piece on QAnon aggregators past and present. According to our information, you are linked to the Qresear.ch aggregator.
I was wondering if we could ask you a few questions about this. Obviously, if you're concerned about having your name out there, we're happy to discuss those concerns and see what we can do about it. Let me know your thoughts and if you'd be willing to arrange a phone call."
You may have realized it: "disinformation researcher"…
UPDATE on Oct. 4th, 2020:
logically.ai
Lyric Jain
Kristina Gildejeva
Joe Ondrak
https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/10905730.html#10906466
https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/10907003.html#10907587
thank you, anons!
btw:
Jul. 13th, 2020: "Fake news detection startup Logically raises ?2.77 million to prepare for US elections"
Sept. 14th, 2020: "This AI startup is tackling the coronavirus disinformation deluge"
Sept. 28th, 2020: "Logically To Live Fact Check U.S. Presidential Debates"
#10919569 at 2020-10-04 19:52:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13973: Shill Bread Down The Hall, Biden Flag Flyin High Edition
Two breads are active right now??
Top of qresearch shows that Anons are tops and reliable frens:
Logically.ai
You may remember the doxxing of the Qmap.pub owner - today (Oct. 2nd, 2020) i received the following email:
"My name is [censored] and I'm a disinformation researcher at a website called Logically. We recently did a story on the QAnon aggregator site QMap, in which we tied the identity of the website operator to an info security specialist from New Jersey.
We're currently doing a piece on QAnon aggregators past and present. According to our information, you are linked to the Qresear.ch aggregator.
I was wondering if we could ask you a few questions about this. Obviously, if you're concerned about having your name out there, we're happy to discuss those concerns and see what we can do about it. Let me know your thoughts and if you'd be willing to arrange a phone call."
You may have realized it: "disinformation researcher"…
UPDATE on Oct. 4th, 2020:
logically.ai
Lyric Jain
Kristina Gildejeva
Joe Ondrak
https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/10905730.html#10906466
https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/10907003.html#10907587
thank you, anons!
btw:
Jul. 13th, 2020: "Fake news detection startup Logically raises ?2.77 million to prepare for US elections"
Sept. 14th, 2020: "This AI startup is tackling the coronavirus disinformation deluge"
Sept. 28th, 2020: "Logically To Live Fact Check U.S. Presidential Debates"
#10919554 at 2020-10-04 19:51:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13973: They Will No Longer Control The Flow of Information Edition
Top of qresearch shows that Anons are tops and reliable frens:
Logically.ai
You may remember the doxxing of the Qmap.pub owner - today (Oct. 2nd, 2020) i received the following email:
"My name is [censored] and I'm a disinformation researcher at a website called Logically. We recently did a story on the QAnon aggregator site QMap, in which we tied the identity of the website operator to an info security specialist from New Jersey.
We're currently doing a piece on QAnon aggregators past and present. According to our information, you are linked to the Qresear.ch aggregator.
I was wondering if we could ask you a few questions about this. Obviously, if you're concerned about having your name out there, we're happy to discuss those concerns and see what we can do about it. Let me know your thoughts and if you'd be willing to arrange a phone call."
You may have realized it: "disinformation researcher"…
UPDATE on Oct. 4th, 2020:
logically.ai
Lyric Jain
Kristina Gildejeva
Joe Ondrak
https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/10905730.html#10906466
https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/10907003.html#10907587
thank you, anons!
btw:
Jul. 13th, 2020: "Fake news detection startup Logically raises ?2.77 million to prepare for US elections"
Sept. 14th, 2020: "This AI startup is tackling the coronavirus disinformation deluge"
Sept. 28th, 2020: "Logically To Live Fact Check U.S. Presidential Debates"
#10907832 at 2020-10-03 23:45:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13959: Anons Opinions Are Never Moot Edition
>>10907601
>Joe Ondrak, who works for Logically.ai on the editing team suggests aggregators are "a pressure-point for QAnon"
fuckwits have neither the brains nor the chops to deal with us at the source.
#10907601 at 2020-10-03 23:28:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13959: Anons Opinions Are Never Moot Edition
Joe Ondrak, who works for Logically.ai on the editing team suggests aggregators are "a pressure-point for QAnon"
https://twitter.com/TheOndrakGuy/status/1306520947739033600
https://twitter.com/TheOndrakGuy/status/1306871448347258880
#10907587 at 2020-10-03 23:27:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13959: Anons Opinions Are Never Moot Edition
Diggz on Logically.ai team, who doxxed qmap.pub and now looking to dox other sites with Q research info
Al Baker, Senior Editor - sits on Leadership team
- Oversees editorial output
>Work history
- Previously worked "as an academic philosopher, working in applied argumentation and moral psychology, and in philosophical aesthetics."
>Education
PhD, Philosophy
MRes, Philosophy
BA(Hons), Philosophy
Kristina Gildejeva, Disinformation Researcher
>Work history
Freelance Translator, BBC Monitoring
Media Assistant, US Dept of State in Riga, Latvia - for 3 yrs, 8 mos
News Editor, Vesti.lv
News Editor, Sanoma
>Education
Masters, history
Bachelors, Theology/Theological Studies
Joe Ondrak, Senior Researcher
- Indicates on his LinkedIn and Twitter that was one of the "investigators" involved in leaking out the details of the individual running QMap.
- Uses "OSINT and academic research methods to understand how disinformation perssist online and how bad actors wield our platforms of connection for deception."
- OSINT = Open source intelligence tools
>Education
Phd, English Language and Literature
MRes, English Literature
BA, English Language and Literature/Letters
Nick Backovic, Contributing Editor
- Canadian-born, from Montreal, Quebec
- BBC journalist covering online disinformation and conspiracy theories, Shayan Sardarizadeh, congratulated Backovic for appearing in the aggregators.
>Education
Phd, The Contemporary Novel
MA, Creative Writing
All the editorial team's education has been in the Arts or something related to that. Gildejeva worked for the US Department of State in Riga for almost 4 years. During her time there, she also performed work relating to Joe Biden's visit to their office in 2016.
#10616550 at 2020-09-12 12:35:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13585: The Early Saturday Earlies Edition
>>10616547
"If [Facebook] had taken their action a year ago, you would not have seen that explosive growth [in QAnon] which began in March," said Mr Carusone. "The core infrastructure would not have been able to scale with it."
Aoife Gallagher, a researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based think-tank, added that some QAnon believers were trying to circumvent detection, sometimes by changing their names. One group with around 3,000 followers had substituted the word Cue for the letter Q.
A spokesperson for Facebook said that the company always removes content which incites violence, and had removed QAnon accounts, groups and pages that had violated the policies in the past. They also said that they were aware that movements and groups can evolve quickly, and that the platform's teams were studying attempts to avoid enforcement.
New dimensions
The social media crackdown came as QAnon had already begun to move into a range of new online communities, tweaking its message in the hope of broadening its network and capturing more adherents.
On Facebook, for instance, QAnon-related content has been posted on a number of spiritual, wellness and alternative medicine groups. One such group, with over 90,000 members, featured memes about crystal healing, palmistry and alien technology interspersed with QAnon-related claims about paedophilia and Covid-19 denialism.
"If you post a QAnon meme to one of these groups, they can be distributed far and wide," said Mr Carusone.
A newer breed of QAnon believer has emerged from these communities, said Joe Ondrak, senior researcher at Logically, a counter-misinformation organisation, which he dubs "lower-case q". Rather than the political dimension of the conspiracy theory, they are primarily focused on child sex-trafficking claims - one of the other original tenets of QAnon.
"They're all about the narrative itself - they're not big on personalities except when it comes to the bad guys," he said. "It's not the Trump cult for them - it's about saving kids from this shadowy cabal.
#9755257 at 2020-06-26 16:54:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12487: Microns For The Win, Czech'em Edition
https://twitter.com/CodaStory/status/1276291834021625856
K-pop fans might be changing the way information warfare is waged online.
https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/kpop-information-warfare/
Less than a week after disappointing attendance figures at a recent rally by U.S. President Donald Trump were widely attributed to the online activism of K-pop fans, disinformation experts say that the tactics deployed by this community mark a potential turning point in how information warfare is waged on digital platforms.
"This generation and these groups of people have a more sophisticated understanding of the way that information is used for political purposes," said Dr. Al Baker, a senior editor at Logically, a UK startup that uses artificial intelligence in fact-checking news. Earlier this week, the organization published a report that examines how K-pop fans have clogged up certain online channels and suppressed antagonism towards the Black Lives Matter movement.
Baker explained via Zoom that fans were targeting far-right conversations and hashtags like #whitelivesmatter with a tsunami of music videos and GIFs to wipe out far-right campaigns before they could gain traction. "It's a tactic that avoids virality - because the whole point was to keep the campaign within this isolated community and not have it spread."
K-pop fans and TikTokers found themselves in the headlines last weekend after claims that they coordinated an effort to register hundreds of thousands of tickets for a Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. While Brad Parscale, the chairman of the president's re-election campaign, posted on Twitter that more than a million ticket requests had been fielded, attendance at the event was much lower than expected. Though it is not clear how many fake registrations were submitted, only 6,500 supporters materialized, according to the Tulsa Fire Department.
Baker and the team at Logically expressed concern that these tactics, cultivated by digitally native K-pop fans and "zoomers", the generation of people born in the late 1990s and early 2000s, might give new ideas to those using more tried and tested information manipulation techniques.
"My main worry is that the techniques that seem inherent to this new generation of online activists might trickle down to more sinister actors," said Joe Ondrak, a senior researcher at Logically.
Ondrak explained that K-pop fans are more instinctive - and far more successful - in using information control techniques than more regular online trolls. "K-pop teens and TikTok users, they're natives to web 2.0," explained Ondrak.
Lily Fu, a 22-year-old recent graduate of University of California, Berkeley, became a K-pop fan last year. In early June, as cities around the world were rocked by Black Lives Matter protests, she and others joined a digital campaign to take over right-wing hashtags like #WhiteLivesMatter and #BlueLivesMatter, the latter of which expresses support for the police.
"Like a lot of millennials, I grew up on the internet and was raised by it. I spend a lot of time on Twitter and I just naturally saw it trending. Friends who know that I like K-pop tagged me to posts that they knew I would take an interest in," she said, in a telephone interview.
Fu said that she first got involved after she learned about K-pop fans trolling the Dallas Police Department after a police app called for users to submit footage of "criminal activity" during the protests. Fans encouraged one another to submit "fancams" - videos, photos and GIFs of their favorite K-pop idols - instead. Though it is unclear whether or not K-pop-related traffic was responsible, the department later announced that "due to technical difficulties" the app would be "down temporarily."
K-pop fans have been shaping certain aspects of internet behavior for years: mass streaming their favorite songs, or acting as "swarms" to promote favored stars. But as the community has taken a political turn, it has also faced a backlash.
According to Logically's report, far-right users of the 4chan and 8kun forums advanced a counter narrative, attempting to recast K-pop fans as racist. They also began using a hashtag, called #kpopstansareoverparty, to share anti-K-pop memes.
But legions of K-pop fans quickly reclaimed the conversation. "Both pro and anti-K-pop accounts are vying for control of #kpopstansareoverparty, but the sheer numbers of the former mean that 4chan and 8kun's subversion efforts are mostly being drowned out," the Logically report found.
"K-pop fans are really easy to mobilize," said Fu. "It's because there's so many of them."
She added that many people within the community wanted to do more than just donate money to anti-racist movements.
"But I'm not gonna lie, some people probably just did it to boost K-pop."
8chan/8kun QResearch CANADA Posts (1)
#10984650 at 2020-10-08 19:25:21 (UTC+1)
Welcome to Q Research Canada #8 - Red October - Leaf Edition - WWG1WGA
Logically.ai at it again...
.this time bashing on Vanwatech, a CDN, hosting, and DDOS protection service
Bad actors are use various server hosting providers to host their sites, similar to criminals opening bank accounts at bank institutions without the bank cluing in on it. One bad actor was using Vanwatech to host a phishing website.
Senior Editor Nick Backovic calls out the different websites that use Vanwatech's services; some of them are related to Patriots spreading the truth. He equates Vanwatech as irresponsible. Yet he does not acknowledge that bad actors like agitators will use the same services as honest citizens. Maybe Backovic should do the same and investigate other web hosting and CDS. I'm sure he'll find more websites of bad actors and then his logic will not hold.
Backovic then lets his colleague Joe Ondrak, 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan, BBC Monitoring and BBC World reporter Shayan Sardarizadeh, NBC News reporters Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny, and Bloomberg reporter William Turton.
There are culprits everywhere. Culprits use the same service providers as innocent citizens. Logical fallacy.
Symptom =/= Root cause.
One data point =/= The truth. You need multiple data points from multiple angles in order for your hypothesis to be qualified.
https://twitter.com/nickbackovic/status/1313570540913922048
8chan/8kun QResearch GERMANY Posts (1)
#10915065 at 2020-10-04 12:35:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #68 | Red October / 2 Year Delta - Edition
https://qresear.ch/
Logically.ai
You may remember the doxxing of the Qmap.pub owner - today (Oct. 2nd, 2020) i received the following email:
"My name is [censored] and I'm a disinformation researcher at a website called Logically. We recently did a story on the QAnon aggregator site QMap, in which we tied the identity of the website operator to an info security specialist from New Jersey.
We're currently doing a piece on QAnon aggregators past and present. According to our information, you are linked to the Qresear.ch aggregator.
I was wondering if we could ask you a few questions about this. Obviously, if you're concerned about having your name out there, we're happy to discuss those concerns and see what we can do about it. Let me know your thoughts and if you'd be willing to arrange a phone call."
You may have realized it: "disinformation researcher"…
UPDATE on Oct. 4th, 2020:
logically.ai
Lyric Jain
Kristina Gildejeva
Joe Ondrak
https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/10905730.html#10906466
https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/10907003.html#10907587
thank you, anons!
btw:
Jul. 13th, 2020: "Fake news detection startup Logically raises ?2.77 million to prepare for US elections"
Sept. 14th, 2020: "This AI startup is tackling the coronavirus disinformation deluge"
Sept. 28th, 2020: "Logically To Live Fact Check U.S. Presidential Debates"