Ron Watkins

Ron Watkins is an American conspiracy theorist and a former site administrator of the imageboard website 8chan. Watkins has played a major role in spreading the discredited far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, and also promulgated baseless conspiracy theories that widespread election fraud led to Joe Biden's victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 United States presidential election. Watkins served as site administrator for 8chan from 2016 until his resignation in November 2020. He is the son of Jim Watkins, the owner and operator of 8chan. Some journalists and conspiracy theory researchers believe that one or both of the Watkinses know the identity of, or are themselves, "Q", the person or group of people behind QAnon.