Cullen Hoback

An HBO filmmaker thought he uncovered the identity of the QAnon creator, but followers of the conspiracy theory are not convinced.

QAnon researchers have long suggested that 8kun's owner and operator led the theory. Speculation continues to center on Jim and Ron Watkins.

One of the many weird things about reporting on QAnon is that you inevitably start thinking like a conspiracy theorist yourself. Covering a cult as bizarre and …

One of the subjects of the HBO series may have slipped and revealed his role as Q. But will that matter to believers of the hoax?

Perhaps you're familiar with TV idiom "the crazy wall." Watch any detective drama for a while and you'll encounter one. The phrase describes a large vertical board kept out of sight by a dogged protagonist or freakish suspect who knows exactly what it says about them. Said board or wall is festooned...

In the newest episode of The Daily Beast podcast "Fever Dreams," Q: Into the Storm director Cullen Hoback goes into greater detail on the lengths 8chan systems administrator Ron Watkins -- the suspect the filmmakers believe is currently behind QAnon -- went to try to convince the filmmakers that Ste...

HBO documentary asserts that 8kun administrator Ron Watkins is shadowy figure

The new study on the seventh planet from the Sun includes detailed assessments of observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory from 2002 and 2017.

The QAnon conspiracy theory is utterly discredited but remains a factor in U.S. politics in 2021. The documentary wants us to care about 30-year-old chatrooms.

A month before the sacking and looting of the United States Capitol on January 6, Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee asked the FBI for an updated assessment of the threat posed by QAnon. At a hearing on Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray assured the committee that the report would ...

There were many speculations about who the so-called "Q" person is, but many Washington, D.C. insiders denied that it was ever a true national intelligence official. The main reason is that the name "Q" came from the claim that he had "Q level clearance," which they said was the top-level. Out of th...

Assessing the latest evidence in a Trump-era mystery.

A lot of recent negative media attention has led to some backpedaling.

Cullen Hoback's six-part look at the QAnon conspiracy explains everything, all at once, and remains perplexing

HBO's new docuseries Q: Into The Storm is both engaging and deeply unsettling—it feels like just the first installment in a far more horrific story.

CNN's Anderson Cooper speaks to director Cullen Hoback about his HBO documentary series "Q: Into The Storm" on potentially uncovering QAnon. HBO is a part of CNN's parent company WarnerMedia.

An HBO docuseries might have the answer on who is the mysterious figure, Q.

The extremist movement's leader had purported to be a top-secret government operative. But a possible slip-up in a new documentary about QAnon suggests that Q was actually Ron Watkins, the longtime administrator of the 8kun message board.

A new HBO documentary investigates the first family of QAnon

"Q: Into the Storm" bears a resemblance to an earlier HBO docuseries, "The Jinx," unfolding like a mystery, as the filmmaker plays mental chess with his subjects. What gives this six-part effort particular heft is the role QAnon has come to play in US politics, becoming, as director Cullen Hoback puts it, "part interactive game, part religion, part political movement."