Category:Ron Watkins: Difference between revisions

'''Ronald Watkins''' (born {{Birth based on age as of date|33|2021|4|13|mos=1|noage=1}})<ref name=":12">{{Cite web|last=Malone|first=Patrick|date=April 13, 2021|title=Seattle man wonders if his childhood friend is the leader of Q-Anon|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-man-wonders-is-his-childhood-friend-the-leader-of-q-anon/|access-date=April 16, 2021|website=[[Seattle Times]]|language=en}}</ref> is an American [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theorist]] and site administrator of the [[imageboard]] website [[8chan]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Gilbert|first=David|date=December 15, 2020|title=The Dangerous QAnon Figure Doing Whatever It Takes to Win Trump's Approval|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wqm7/ron-watkins-meet-the-dangerous-qanon-figure-doing-whatever-it-takes-to-win-trumps-approval|access-date=January 20, 2021|website=[[Vice (website)|Vice]]|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web|last=Ling|first=Justin|date=January 6, 2021|title=QAnon Is Trumpism Now|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/06/qanon-q-trump-republican-party-election/|access-date=January 20, 2021|website=[[Foreign Policy]]|language=en-US}}</ref> He has played a major role in spreading the discredited [[Far-right politics|far-right]] [[QAnon]] conspiracy theory,<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":8" /> and has promulgated baseless conspiracy theories that widespread election fraud led to [[Joe Biden]]'s victory over [[Donald Trump]] in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 U.S. presidential election]].<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /> He is the son of [[Jim Watkins (businessman)|Jim Watkins]], the owner and operator of 8chan.<ref name=":10" /> Some journalists and researchers believe that one or both of the Watkinses know the identity of, or are themselves, "[[QAnon#Identity of Q|Q]]", the person or group of people behind QAnon.<ref name="watkinses-q-bundle"/>

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