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Skullduggery

Q: Unmasked

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The writer/director of the stunning new six-part investigative documentary series Q: Into the Storm, Cullen Hoback, joins Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman and Victoria Bassetti to talk about his amazing project, which spans years and multiple continents in search of the connections between the QAnon movement and a mysterious trio of figures associated with the website 8chan (or, as it was later known, 8kun). They talk about the implications of the documentary’s more fascinating discoveries: including a possible “confession” by Ron Watkins.


Our hosts also give you the latest on Gaetz-gate, and update you on the backlash to MLB’s fight against Georgia’s restrictive new voting laws, which President Biden has called “Jim Crow on steroids.”


GUEST:

  • Cullen Hoback (@CullenHoback), Investigative filmmaker, writer/director of Q: Into the Storm

HOSTS:

  • Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
  • Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
  • Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice

RESOURCES:


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Transcript

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0:00.0

So I have Q posted.

0:03.0

Yeah, Q posted a few hours after we went live.

0:06.0

So he didn't waste any time?

0:08.0

No, he was immediate.

0:09.0

I couldn't even see the website and he's already posting.

0:12.0

Due to some technical difficulties,

0:15.0

it was basically impossible for users to post on A-Coon

0:18.0

during its first few days back online.

0:20.0

Yet somehow, Q managed to.

0:23.0

He could tell the website is not running well,

0:26.0

but he still wanted out of his way to make posts

0:28.0

probably to call him everybody or whatever he's doing.

0:31.0

I don't know. I'm not Q.

0:33.0

I don't know if Q is.

0:37.0

No idea.

0:39.0

I don't even barely even follow it.

0:42.0

Honestly.

0:45.0

That's a strange character named Ron Watkins

0:48.0

talking to filmmaker Colin Hoback in the recently released

0:52.0

6-part HBO documentary, Q, into the storm.

0:56.0

The film is a wild voyage through the internet underworld

0:59.0

where the mysteriously named Q,

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