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Facebook removes accounts linked to QAnon conspiracy theory
Associated Press ^ | May 5, 2020 | Barbara Ortutay

Posted on 05/05/2020 11:35:22 PM PDT by 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. …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: censorship; facebook; fakebook; q; qanon; trustbarr; trusttheplan; vdare
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1 posted on 05/05/2020 11:35:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

FB needs to be seriously disrupted.


2 posted on 05/05/2020 11:43:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Olog-hai

Wow

So, Fakebook is going to be Fairy Truth Teller and not allow people to engage in crackpot theories and conspiracies?

Next they will deny Lincoln said “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet” April 15, 1865


3 posted on 05/05/2020 11:43:51 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Olog-hai

Good riddance. What a frikkin, marginalized nutcase.


4 posted on 05/05/2020 11:48:02 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: Olog-hai
suspected coordinated inauthentic behavior

This really struck my funny bone. The cult of Hillary, the cult of Obama, the cult of Global Climate Change, the cult of the Green New Deal, the cult of Global Socialist Domination, we could go on and on, all must be "coordinated authentic behavior." I'm dying here ROTF. These jerks don't ever read their own foolish statements.

5 posted on 05/05/2020 11:48:42 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

So you’re okay with Fakebook censoring them instead of the accounts just going away by “attrition” i.e. being ignored?


6 posted on 05/05/2020 11:50:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

facbook, youtube, and twitter are in ideological sync with msdnc and cnn. Do you want them to be the arbitrator of what can and cannot be discussed? We need alternatives.


7 posted on 05/05/2020 11:51:00 PM PDT by JoSixChip (I blame the teacher's unions)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
???
Facebook hasn't gotten rid of anybody. They may just think they have.
It's like they banned Alex Jones a while back. Today he is as strong as ever. Facebook is not the Internet.
8 posted on 05/05/2020 11:56:45 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Olog-hai

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


By “inauthentic behavior”, they mean saying anything positive about Pres. Trump.


9 posted on 05/05/2020 11:57:27 PM PDT by Flick Lives (The real virus is the MSM)
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To: Olog-hai

Gaining steam.Had to shut them down.My brother got red pilled from the pages.No longer a leftie.I say Bravo.


10 posted on 05/06/2020 12:15:27 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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Facebook was founded by a Harvard nerd because he could not get any dates with college girls. You can’t destroy what people can easily discover through other sources.

If FB people consider alternative knowledge “dangerous,” that knowledge is obviously powerful and cannot be hidden.

People once believed formally educating girls was dangerous.

A real kook is not feared. This is attempted suppression of a powerful truth. At one time, Copernicus was considered a wild-eyed lunatic for his belief the Earth revolved around the Sun.


11 posted on 05/06/2020 12:53:48 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: Gnome1949

Bad analogy. The “Q” crazies are crazy. No science behind it.


12 posted on 05/06/2020 1:22:02 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: Paladin2

All the platforms need to be turned into utilities and have no censorship capabilities, censorship should happen at user level with purchased tools. User should also purchase service.

this applies to
FB GOOGLE Instagra Utube, redit twitter as well as the Cell phone providers and the cable providers none which fall under utilitie guidelines at this time.

If it communicates it needs to be a utility


13 posted on 05/06/2020 2:00:35 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: higgmeister

My sentiments exactly.I am ROFL with you. The trolls out themselves by singing the praises of selective censorship.


14 posted on 05/06/2020 2:13:14 AM PDT by MagnoliaB ( You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you will find you get what you need.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
VDARE regularly posts articles by Victor Davis Hanson.

No need for FB to pull VDARE content.

15 posted on 05/06/2020 2:47:03 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Olog-hai

“Authentic behavior”, as I understand it, is unthinking, robotic support of any leftist/globalist person, position, or belief. To these people at Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and the like, anyone who deviates from this “authenticism” must be shut down and silenced.

They are afraid, not because some people on the fringe might adhere to some kookiness, but because many more people in the mainstream might adhere to a truth.

It is particularly disturbing that some who claim to be conservatives endorse and celebrate this kind of police-state behavior.

The more Facebook and their fellow travelers practice their high-tech book burning, the more people will wonder if maybe, just maybe, there is something real there.

This goes far beyond the question of whether Q is real, or just some Internet silliness.

The same suppression is happening as more and more people question the establishment coronavirus response dictats. In this case, it’s a matter of life and death, and the survival of our way of life.


16 posted on 05/06/2020 2:52:18 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (This tagline is an advertisement-free zone. Is yours?)
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To: higgmeister

It’s not Facebook but Twitter, but if you want a glimpse into how the top management of the West Coast social media thinks and operates, watch this long form interview:

Joe Rogan Experience #1258 - Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde & Tim Pool
https://youtu.be/DZCBRHOg3PQ

Jack Dorsey is a computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who is co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. Vijaya Gadde serves as the global lead for legal, policy, and trust and safety at Twitter. Tim Pool is an independent journalist. His work can currently be found at http://timcast.com

Dorsey and Gadde are dangerously powerful, self-righteous and impressed with themselves is my quick summary. Worth watching.


17 posted on 05/06/2020 2:55:34 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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I lol’ed at the first comment...

“This woman is the human embodiment of an automated email response”


18 posted on 05/06/2020 3:11:58 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (This tagline is an advertisement-free zone. Is yours?)
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To: Fresh Wind

She’s a stone cold flat out witch.

And you can also substitute a b at the beginning of the last word in that line, it works both ways.


19 posted on 05/06/2020 3:29:52 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Olog-hai
suspected coordinated inauthentic behavior


20 posted on 05/06/2020 3:37:26 AM PDT by Pollard (shadowbanned)
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