Facebook cracks down on QAnon, after it reached millions of people - Business Insider

Facebook announced Wednesday it was taking down pages and accounts that promote QAnon, a conspiracy theory with a growing number of followers.

After sporadic moves to limit QAnon's spread, Wednesday's move is the company's most significant to date.Facebook is finally cracking down on QAnon, a baseless conspiracy theory that accuses prominent politicians of links to pedophilia and has been linked to violence.Over the past few months, QAnon content has run rampant on Facebook, reaching millions of people and growing rapidly as the pandemic fueled paranoia and enflamed distrust of the government.

that 170 prominent QAnon pages had a combined 4.5 million followers across Facebook and Instagram and were growing fast, with "dedicated communities for QAnon followers in at least 15 countries on Facebook.". The company's own internal research reportedly found that "the top 10 groups ... collectively contain more than 1 million members, with totals from more top groups and pages pushing the number of members and followers past 3 million.

This crackdown may help to slow QAnon's spread — but it comes only after it has already found a vast audience through the social network.

those trustworthy eyes.

To late for that. The seed been planted millions already.

Thought police.

Man what a good picture Mark Looks Thrilled here. This was a Glamor Shot day! He dressed up so well.

That’s good. More and more people keep asking what is Qanon76 after they see this It’s called the Streisan affect

QAnon has done a great deal of damage to dems after it exposed pedophile networks among other things.

It’s a mistake for Facebook to act like Twitter.

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