Researchers identify key QAnon inflieuncer

[redheadbaker]

thehill.com/policy/technology/568723-researchers-identify-key-qanon-influencer-ghostezra

Researchers at the intelligence firm Logically have identified a key member of the QAnon community who has used his significant platform to spread antisemitic conspiracies.

In a new report released Friday, the researchers identified the person behind “GhostEzra” as Robert Smart of Boca Raton, Fla.

GhostEzra has recently emerged as one of the most influential figures in far-right online spaces, amassing well over 300,000 Telegram channel subscribers since the beginning of the year.

The channel frequently spars with other QAnon influencers, something that has distinguished it from the other voices trying to fill the void left when the shadowy figure Q stopped posting on image boards last fall.

[TR]

Fucking Florida.

[just]

The investigation itself is CRAZY. It makes me want to start wearing a tinfoil hat and immediate stop using the internet.
www.logically.ai/articles/exclusive-ghostezra-florida-man-largest-antisemitic-forum

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From this article: www.vice.com/en/article/93yvmv/qanon-ghostezra-is-robert-randall-smart

One of QAnon’s most prolific, popular, and antisemitic influencers has been revealed to be a deeply religious 39-year-old Trump supporter in Florida.

Florida - check!
White male - check!
Religious - check!
Trump supporter - check!

Look at that, checks all the suspected boxes...

[carmenere]

jennyparnassus That’s some Criminal Minds shit and it makes me want to delete my entire post history.

[Bad Dingo]

“Do you see how disinformation ruins our movement?” one QAnon influencer posted

HAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH

[wise_rita]

Aug 20, 2021 16:06:57 GMT -5 jennyparnassus said:

Aug 20, 2021 15:22:00 GMT -5 just said:

The investigation itself is CRAZY. It makes me want to start wearing a tinfoil hat and immediate stop using the internet.
www.logically.ai/articles/exclusive-ghostezra-florida-man-largest-antisemitic-forum

I have no sympathy for this guy.

However, this reminds me of something that happened to someone on another message board that I visited years ago. This one poster, "Athena," posted constantly about how much she hated her job at a library at a university.  Well, one day, somebody else on the board who had it out for Athena emailed Athena's supervisor with snapshots of a bunch of posts that Athena had made bitching out her job and / or her manager.

It turned out that Athena had made some sort of offhand remark about visiting some chain coffee shop about a block or so from her workplace. The other poster had used context clues from Athenas posts, including this remark about the coffee shop, in order to identify university libraries that were physically located one block away from locations of this chain coffee shop. Then, this other poster pulled up an online directory of employees at this library, and used context clues from Athena's posts to identify which of these employees in the directory was Athena. 

Something not hugely dissimilar happened right here, with a heavy dose of racism thrown into the mix.  

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That is crazy. It reminds me of that Netflix movie Don't F with Cats in terms of the tenacity of the research.

In case you wanted to see what this piece of shit looks like, here is an article with additional photos.