Citigroup Employee: Jason Gelinas: QAnon Website Goes Down

Citigroup Employee: Jason Gelinas: QAnon Website Goes Down Sept 16, 2020 8:46:03 GMT

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Post by the Scribe on Sept 16, 2020 8:46:03 GMT

Jason Gelinas: QAnon Website Goes Down as Operator Is Id’d as Citigroup Employee
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Jason Gelinas pictured on his Facebook page.

Jason Gelinas is the Citigroup employee who was identified as the operator of QMap, the most-popular website regarding the QAnon conspiracy theory.
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On his now-deleted LinkedIn page, Gelinas says he works as a security analyst for Citigroup. He has been with the finance giant since 2003. Previously, Gelinas worked in a similar role with Credit Suisse, according to his LinkedIn page. On that profile, Gelinas says he graduated with a bachelor of arts in information systems from Fordham University and also received his master’s degree in business administration from the same school.

QAnon is a political conspiracy theory in which followers believe a mysterious government employee, codenamed Q, is working with President Donald Trump to uncover child sex trafficking ring that is operated by Satan-worshipping Democratic politicians and liberal activists. In August 2020, Trump referred to QAnon followers as “people who love our country.”
www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-qanon.html

The Report That Outed Gelinas Says It’s Unlikely He Is Q

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Gelinas pictured with his wife in 2009.

Gelinas, 42, was outed as the operator of QMap by fact-checking website Logically.ai. The Logically report points out that it’s unlikely that Gelinas is Q or even that he was involved in the group’s origins. The website has been removed. The most recent post on the site showed a meme which suggested that Adolf Hitler’s act after assuming power was to defund the police. This claim has been debunked.
www.logically.ai/articles/qanon-key-figure-man-from-new-jersey
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Gelinas is a resident of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He is married with children. The Logically report referred to Gelinas as the “developer and mouthpiece” of the site. Bloomberg reports that the site is connected to Gelinas’ address. According to Similar Web, QMap received 10 million visits per month during May, June and July in 2020. In August 2020, that number was to 7.6 million.
www.logically.ai/articles/qanon-key-figure-man-from-new-jersey
www.similarweb.com/website/qmap.pub/#overview

Gelinas Is Linked to Another Website Named Patriot Platforms

What is QAnon? How the conspiracy theory gained traction in 2020 campaignWith less than three months until Election Day, most of the nation’s attention has been focused on the presidential race. But more than 20 candidates who support a far-right conspiracy theory will be on the ballot for Congressional races in November. Amna Nawaz reports and talks to Travis View, co-host of the “QAnon Anonymous” podcast.…2020-08-12T23:34:25Z

In addition, online records show that Gelinas’ address is linked to another website named Patriot Platforms, which has been removed. A cached version of the website sees the company call itself as a “technology company building next-generation social media applications and tools.” The introduction page on the website includes a quote from President Donald Trump that reads, “Must be more, and fairer, companies to get out the word.”
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The Bloomberg report says that the Patriot Platforms email is also associated with an app named Armor of God. At the time of writing, Armor of God is not accessible via Google Play. Logically reports that a user named JJGelinas77 was a frequent poster on Armor of God. The profile says that JJGelinas77 works as an app developer.

In a post on the forum Feed for All, the user JJGelinas77 gives his name as Jason. Gelinas Facebook page has been deleted.
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Gelinas Referred to QAnon as a ‘Patriotic Movement to Save Our Country’

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Gelinas’ profile on his MeetMe page.

Gelinas told Bloomberg when he spoke to a reporter, “I’m not going to comment on any of that. I’m not going to get involved. I want to stay out of it.” Gelinas said that someone had sent him the Logically report on Twitter. He referred to QAnon as a “patriotic movement to save the country.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-11/qanon-website-shuts-down-after-n-j-man-identified-as-operator?sref=ylv224K8

Citigroup Employee: Jason Gelinas: QAnon Website Goes Down Sept 16, 2020 8:51:48 GMT

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Post by the Scribe on Sept 16, 2020 8:51:48 GMT

Popular QAnon Website Shuts Down After Citigroup Employee And Webmaster Doxxed And Stalked
Establishment terrified of anti-pedophilia, anti-corruption movement

By Zero Hedge Saturday, September 12, 2020

The world’s most popular QAnon post aggregator has been taken offline, after its webmaster – a Citigroup employee named Jason Gelinas – was doxxed by Logically.com and later stalked by Bloomberg‘s William Turton – who drove out to his house for an interview.

Under the username ‘QAppAnon,’ Gelinas launched Qmap.pub in May of 2018 under the username ‘QAppAnon,’ – which boasted over 10 million visitors in July according to SimilarWeb. The site aggregated ‘Q drops,’ messages posted by an anonymous individual (or individuals) to image board ‘8kun’ promoting the theory that President Trump is part of a military intelligence operation by ‘white hat’ insiders to take down the deep state – arresting and prosecuting corrupt government officials and pedophiles.

Because ‘8kun’ users often post graphic or objectionable material, Qmap.pub provided followers of the movement a ‘clean’ platform to follow Q drops.

Over the years, Q’s posts would move from the 4chan forum to 8chan, and finally to its later iteration, 8kun. But these forums weren’t where most of Q’s followers would go to access the drops: most would find them neatly compiled on a site called QMap, now the main platform on which Q’s drops are published. For years it was believed that QMap was an endeavour that was independent of both the chan forums and the person or people posting Q’s drops, but recent discoveries concerning an IP address behind QMap raised questions as to whether Jim Watkins, the owner of 8chan and 8kun, an elusive figure in his own right, could also be Q. As some QAnon researchers have pointed out, however, the story of Q’s operations does not end with Jim Watkins. –Logically.com

Now, this is all that appears when one visits the site:

When reached at home by Bloomberg‘s Turton and asked about the Logically report, Gelinas said “I’m not going to comment on any of that,” adding “I’m not going to get involved. I want to stay out of it.”

Wearing an American flag baseball cap, Gelinas said that QAnon is a “patriotic movement to save the country.”

Hours after the initial contact from Bloomberg News, the website was no longer accessible. –Bloomberg

How did Logically track down Gelinas?

According to their report, the website used a now-deleted Facebook post to track him down via email.

“Our investigation can reveal that QAPPANON is not Watkins, but instead a New Jersey man in his forties with prominent roles in technical analysis and IT security for the banking sector.

QAPPANON’s email address was initially discovered during our investigation into QMap’s translation efforts and international reach. A now-deleted Facebook post allowed us to trace the email to a CNET download cache for the QMap app as well as a new app in development called Armor of God.

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An extraction of QAPPANON’s email address from the URL led to their developer profile and list of created apps on CNET. While the qmap app is well known at this point, Armor of God is relatively new, having been uploaded on the 18th June 2020.“

And according to Gelinas’ LinkedIn profile, he’s an information security analyst for Citigroup.

In August, Facebook followed Twitter’s July decision to punish QAnon followers – banning hundreds of pages, groups and Instagram accounts tied to the movement.

So – now that Gelinas has been outed as the man behind the most popular QAnon site on the planet, which has now been deactivated, what else does he have to worry about?

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