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Facebook says it will limit the use of the 'Save our Children' hashtag after QAnon co-opted the anti-trafficking movement

People march during a "Save the Children" rally outside the Capitol building on August 22, 2020 in St Paul, Minnesota.Facebook will limit the use of the QAnon conspiracy theory's "Save our Children" hashtag, the company said Friday.

QAnon's pivot from an extreme conspiracy theory to anti-trafficking rhetoric has been integral to its rapid spread on Facebook in particular. Facebook will limit the use of the "Save our Children" hashtag, as the movement that's purportedly against human trafficking has been overtaken by QAnon conspiracy theorists, the company said Friday.

"Earlier this week, we stepped up how we enforce our rules against QAnon on pages, events, and groups. Starting today, we're limiting the distribution of the 'save our children' hashtag given we've found that content tied to it is now associated with QAnon," the spokesperson said in a statement, which was first reported by Brandy Zadrozny of NBC News.

The company did not specify whether the same restriction would apply to the "Save the Children" hashtag.

 

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Sitting at lunch next to a table with two Trumpers. The conspiracy theories and separation from reality is astonishingly. Trump tapped into the uneducated, the racists, bigots, and homophobes and leveraged their ignorance and hate.

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