Facebook removes accounts linked to QAnon conspiracy theory

Associated Press ^ | May 5, 2020 | Barbara Ortutay

[Olog-hai]

Facebook says it has removed several groups, accounts and pages linked to QAnon, taking action for the first time against the far-right U.S. conspiracy theory circulated among supporters of President Donald Trump.

The social-media giant made the announcement Tuesday as part of its monthly briefing on “coordinated inauthentic behavior” on its platforms. That’s Facebook’s term for fake accounts run with the intent of disrupting politics elections and society.

In addition to the QAnon accounts, Facebook also removed accounts linked to VDARE, a U.S. website known for posting anti-immigration content, as well as accounts in Russia, Iran, Mauritania, Myanmar and the country of Georgia. […]

Facebook says it found the QAnon activity as part of its investigations into suspected coordinated inauthentic behavior ahead of the 2020 presidential election. …

[Olog-hai]

AFAICS, those who post to FR are agreeing to make them the owners of whatever original content is subsequently published here, making them a publisher (corrections welcome); thus, the removal or retention of such content is exclusively at their discretion, versus if they were a platform for others’ content.

The Articles and Amendments of the US Constitution are indeed law, and that is explicitly stated in Article VI; if not, they could bind no entity, whether a member of government or otherwise.

[Olog-hai]

Since you threw a Lew Rockwell link at me, my capacity to take you seriously has taken a nosedive. Have a nice evening.

[GingisK]

Suit yourself; however, you are misconstruing one of the most important aspects of our Constitution. There isn’t a Constitutional scholar I have read who agrees with you. Perhaps you could enlighten me with apt references.

[Olog-hai]

Well, considering whom you consider “Constitutional scholar(s)”, that would not surprise me; but a real Constitutional scholar would certainly agree with the meaning of the word “law” as in “supreme law of the land”.

As for Rockwell, he has no problem posting stuff like this on his website.

[Hot Tabasco]

I truly believe that Facebook has a clandestine connection to the NSA and has the ability to data mine email correspondence from the internet of all its members......

[BiggBob]

So the media that lies to you about everything thing else told you the truth about Facebook?

PS look up project lifelog it tested and presented at Natick army labs in Natick ma 15 mins down rt 90 from Harvard...