Facebook says it's cracking down on thousands of QAnon-linked accounts and groups
Source: CNN
Facebook on Wednesday cracked down on thousands of accounts across Facebook and Instagram promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory, as well as a range of militia and anarchist groups, amid what the company said was a rise in behavior among those accounts and groups celebrating violence. Hundreds of groups, pages and advertisements were removed from Facebook as part of the effort, the company said.
As many as 10,000 Instagram accounts and hundreds of groups and pages on Facebook tied to QAnon received additional restrictions, Facebook said.
The ban marks Facebook's latest effort to grapple with QAnon, which includes discredited claims that began on the fringes of the internet but have since become increasingly common on mainstream online platforms and espoused by some Republican congressional candidates.
Facebook said in a blog post that the crackdown is part of a broader expansion of its policies against violence. The goal, it said, was to prevent members of the affected movements from being able to organize on Facebook, not to ban content that expresses support for them.
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CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)people, reporter then mentioned they are also going on the terrorist watch list.
Initech
(100,104 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)I dont trust Fuckerberg any further than I can throw him.
Roy Rolling
(6,936 posts)@RealDonaldTrump
Hes been known to spread QAnon bullshit.
WhoWoodaKnew
(847 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)The guy's website they were talking about, had photos of nazis on the timeline, along with all the QAnon craziness.
The people there were hoping for earthquakes in California among other things.
And they kept asking stuff like, "But you said 3 months ago such and such was going to happen. When's that going to happen?"
They were all excited about watching people suffer.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)Its not supposed to be a political platform but mine had been taken over by a bunch of Trumpers. Nextdoor would not remove posts, etc. and it was causing a lot of friction in our area.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)but they weren't doing anything about it.
So now I just block people.