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Jordan Wildon
@JordanWildon
With increasingly explicit neo-Nazi views shared to over 334,000 people, QAnon influencer GhostEzra's Telegram was dubbed the "largest antisemitic online channel or forum."
Today, we at @LogicallyAI can reveal the Florida man behind the anonymous account.
Logically has identified the person behind GhostEzra
EXCLUSIVE: Logically Identifies GhostEzra, Florida Man Behind Worlds Largest Antisemitic Internet...
GhostEzra runs the largest QAnon channel on Telegram, and has been spreading openly antisemitic propaganda for months. Using OSINT, we found him.
logically.ai
7:00 AM · Aug 20, 2021
Jordan Wildon
@JordanWildon
With increasingly explicit neo-Nazi views shared to over 334,000 people, QAnon influencer GhostEzra's Telegram was dubbed the "largest antisemitic online channel or forum."
Today, we at @LogicallyAI can reveal the Florida man behind the anonymous account.
Logically has identified the person behind GhostEzra
EXCLUSIVE: Logically Identifies GhostEzra, Florida Man Behind Worlds Largest Antisemitic Internet...
GhostEzra runs the largest QAnon channel on Telegram, and has been spreading openly antisemitic propaganda for months. Using OSINT, we found him.
logically.ai
7:00 AM · Aug 20, 2021
https://www.logically.ai/articles/exclusive-ghostezra-florida-man-largest-antisemitic-forum
Logically, as part of our mission to understand and counter harmful online misinformation, conducts continuous research into the networks, channels, and actors that play an outsized role in spreading misinformation and conspiracies. One element of that research program is working to uncover the identities of those who leverage online anonymity to avoid accountability for spreading misinformation and hate speech. GhostEzra is the most extreme, and arguably the most influential such figure that the investigative team has uncovered to date.
GhostEzra, who first appeared online at the end of 2020, has made claims about Jewish control of Big Pharma, the media, and central banking. The account has also claimed that Jews are responsible for both world wars and that the people who identify as Jewish but are not actually even Jews have a goal of total world domination and control. He has linked his followers multiple times to neo-Nazi propaganda, including a 12-hour film that, among other claims, asserts that Jews created communism with a goal of total world domination. As a result, the comments under the accounts Telegram posts now effectively function as a neo-Nazi discussion forum.
Over time, the QAnon influencers account has moved from coded antisemitism to posting explicit Nazi propaganda, including outright Holocaust denial and a slew of conspiracy theories that often range from obliquely to explicitly antisemitic. GhostEzras conspiratorial interests range widely, with posts touching on conspiracies about the 2020 U.S. election, COVID-19 denialism, claims that Joe Biden is dead and has been replaced by an actor, and that a variety of female celebrities and politicians are actually men.
The man behind the account, Robert Smart, is an evangelical Christian and serial entrepreneur who attends several churches in his local area. He appears to have previously operated at least four other QAnon Twitter accounts, each set up within a day of its predecessor being suspended and each sharing similar identifiers, including almost identical bios, and a similar writing style. All of the accounts identified by Logically as his in some way invoked the identities of individuals frequently lauded by QAnon adherents as significant players or bringers of "the storm," such as Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell, or Ezra Cohen-Watnick.
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Logically Identifies GhostEzra, Florida Man Behind World's 'Largest Antisemitic Internet Forum' (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Aug 2021
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EYESORE 9001
(25,931 posts)1. '... evangelical Christian and serial entrepreneur...'
I have learned to keep my hand on my wallet at all times whenever I am in the presence of charlatans like that.
Midnight Writer
(21,745 posts)5. That's what hit me in the eye, too.
A double threat conman.
jmbar2
(4,874 posts)2. Great investigative work
Kudos to this team.
I tried looking this guy up. Wonder if it's the same Robert Smart that got busted for child molestation about 10 years ago when he was around 27yo.
David__77
(23,372 posts)3. That's a start.
This person is a nazi.
marble falls
(57,077 posts)4. Piece of work. Even other Qers don't like him.
tanyev
(42,552 posts)6. Kick
ck4829
(35,062 posts)7. K&R