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2020: Exposure in connection with QAnon conspiracy theory
The chief information officer of Citigroup was the creator of the website advancing the popular theory about the Trump's opposition to elite of pedophiles Satanists.
In the middle of September, 2020 it became known that one of IT heads of Citigroup Jason Gelinas was the creator of the website advancing popular conspiracy theory of QAnon about opposition Trump to elite of pedophiles Satanists. Gelinas was sent on a paid leave while the company conducts internal investigation with respect thereto a question.
Gelinas was the creator of the QMap.pub website and the related mobile applications, the website of check of the facts Logically.ai. According to SimilarWeb company, in July QMap.pub visited more than 10 million visitors. Gelinas earned more than $3000 a month from the crowdfunding website Patreon devoted to support of the website QAnon, and this money covered monthly operating costs.
According to rules of Citigroup, employees are obliged to disclose all necessary information on the external business activity and to get permission to its maintaining at the management. Gelinas did not provide such information though was a senior manager of the Citigroup IT group.
The website QMap.pub created by Gelinas served as the Q drops aggregator which represent the anonymous postings on the set subject left by "insider" on website 8kun. As on the website 8kun it is difficult to be guided, many people who are interested in QAnon instead use aggregators. QMap.pub became the most popular thanks to convenient functions, such as search in tags. The researcher of this subject and one of organizers of a podcast of QAnon Anonymous Travis View noted that such approach was very effective and allowed enthusiasts of conspiracy theory "pupate in representations of about the world".
Gelinas refused to give comments on the website and said that QAnon is "the patriotic movement directed to rescue of the country".[1]
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