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QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show
NBC ^ | 08 10 2020 | Ari Sen and Brandy Zadrozny

Posted on 08/10/2020 2:11:42 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

An internal investigation by Facebook has uncovered thousands of groups and pages, with millions of members and followers, that support the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to internal company documents reviewed by NBC News.

The investigation’s preliminary results, which were provided to NBC News by a Facebook employee, shed new light on the scope of activity and content from the QAnon community on Facebook, a scale previously undisclosed by Facebook and unreported by the news media, because most of the groups are private.

The top 10 groups identified in the investigation 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. It is not clear how much overlap there is among the groups.

The investigation will likely inform what, if any, action Facebook decides to take against its QAnon community, according to the documents and two current Facebook employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. The company is considering an option similar to its handling of anti-vaccination content, which is to reject advertising and exclude QAnon groups and pages from search results and recommendations, an action that would reduce the community’s visibility.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cult; facebook; fascistbook; q; qanon; qtards
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To: LeoTDB69
In the liberal mind anyone voting for Trump is QAnon

We are all Q.


21 posted on 08/10/2020 4:21:28 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Zathras
There are probably 1M+ people on FB who think the world is flat.

Wait. It isn't?


22 posted on 08/10/2020 4:29:18 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: a fool in paradise
Is QAnon any relation to Anonymous?

No.

Do either even really exist?

No. 4600 posts just magically appeared out of nothingness.

Maybe aliens.


23 posted on 08/10/2020 4:31:28 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: edh
Does that kind of nonsense make sense to you? Seriously, do you *really* believe that someone was able to see into the future and post about it?

Boy, are you confused.

Nice strawman, though.


24 posted on 08/10/2020 4:32:42 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: romanesq
“There are probably 1M+ people on FB who think the world is flat.”

We get it already, MAGAcoalition. You've thrown in your lot with the derp state.

Q = Patriots

Anti Q = Anti Patriot

Simple as that.

#WrongSideOfHistory


25 posted on 08/10/2020 4:35:15 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: John S Mosby
And more than a half million of those are probably “bots” not even real people.

You wishing it does not make it so.

#WeAreLegion


26 posted on 08/10/2020 4:38:35 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: FroedrickVonFreepenstein

They don’t care if it’s a larp or not, what it does is put reasonable conspiracies mainstream. They don’t like that. Plus the following is huge now.


27 posted on 08/10/2020 4:47:21 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #Godwins #150Kclub)
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To: bagster

You’re the one that’s confused there chief ... or at least a lot of the more vociferous followers of Q are.

Trust Sessions ... Trust Wray ... trust the plan, Stan!

You guys gotta do a better job of rounding up the idiots that promote bullshit like “JFK Jr is alive” and “Add the derivative of 9x^3 + x^2 + 4x + 2 where x=69 to some frigging date in a vague post to learn what some omnipotent, time traveling, savior of the western world meant”.

Seriously man, you are wasting your time with that larp, and I feel for all of you when you learn the truth about it ... you are being played like a deck of cards.

The only reason I actually care about the larp is that the *entire* scam is making the right look like lunatics. That can lead to loss of elections.


28 posted on 08/10/2020 4:47:48 PM PDT by edh
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To: edh
"It is a LARP ... and it’s probably being run by liberal idiots to keep EVERYONE that might fight back complacent." Worked in midterms in 2018. The Qult prediction the House is safe" was the grifters separating Boomers from their money 💰 biggest win. Then seeing their prediction blow up Republicans leading to an insane impeachment by the House Dems was their biggest laugh. All costing President Trump years off his presidency but "Trust Sessions" and "Trusty the Plan!" 🤣😂🙀😜
29 posted on 08/10/2020 4:52:26 PM PDT by romanesq (Flubro, from the people who brought you the stupidity of grifters & the letter Q)
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To: edh
You’re the one that’s confused there chief ... or at least a lot of the more vociferous followers of Q are.

You got me twisted, hoss. I'm the most vociferous of them all.

Seriously man, you are wasting your time with that larp, and I feel for all of you when you learn the truth about it ... you are being played like a deck of cards.

How funny. I was just about to say the same thing to you. I want you to snap a pic of your face when you find out Q is what Q says he is. Post it on FR, please.

The only reason I actually care about the larp is that the *entire* scam is making the right look like lunatics. That can lead to loss of elections.

You are so misguided and wrong that your credibility on other matters is now in question.

Going after Trump like this and dividing us is what leads to losing elections.

Join General Flynn and patriots and get on board.

Where we go one, we go all.


30 posted on 08/10/2020 5:03:41 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: romanesq
All costing President Trump...

If that were true, Trump would have denounced Q long ago. You know this to be true, but you avoid that question.

Please stop attacking President Trump's operation. You attack it, you attack him. You attack him, you attack me.

Where we go one, we go all.


31 posted on 08/10/2020 5:06:26 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

Literalist. Missed my point entirely. The zucker weenie and his little turds think they are hurting— they aren’t.

You do not understand directed misdirection, aka diversion. Let them think what they think, they can’t harm what is coming, and it’s pitiful to watch them whimper and trot out all kinds of whiners.- the comm is through other means not farcebook. Surely you understand that. Been here a loooong time,more than 20 years. You’ve no need to correct me.

EveryMan is Anon, and that is way beyond.. “Legion” which is a fine brag for a movie. This is real, OK?

As of old organized, if done correctly... in threes. To rule out imposters and true LARPs who work for...well, you know.


32 posted on 08/10/2020 5:08:25 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: yesthatjallen

They’ll disappear shortly after 11/3/20


33 posted on 08/10/2020 5:30:32 PM PDT by JonPreston (Covid19 is communist Chinese bioweapon)
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To: John S Mosby
Been here a loooong time,more than 20 years. You’ve no need to correct me.

Just curious. What's how long you been on FR got to do with right or wrongness?

EveryMan is Anon

Not so. One must have taken the red pill (from a movie, sue me) in order to be a proper Anon. Failing to do so ensures that all or part of the derp indoctrination is still in affect.

and that is way beyond.. “Legion” which is a fine brag for a movie. This is real, OK?

Its as real as it gets. Its bigger than we can imagine.

To call it a LARP is to deny the truth of it all.

As of old organized, if done correctly... in threes. To rule out imposters and true LARPs who work for...well, you know.

This line is a puzzlement, so I have no comment.


34 posted on 08/10/2020 5:33:57 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster
Short, quick and to the point 🤣👍 Luv ya Bags!
35 posted on 08/10/2020 5:36:00 PM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ..

good post, yesthatjallen


36 posted on 08/10/2020 6:13:51 PM PDT by bitt (Our rights donÂ’t end where your feelings begin.)
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To: bagster; All

Where we go one, we go all.

WWG1WGA


37 posted on 08/10/2020 6:24:56 PM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Not just the US, too.


38 posted on 08/10/2020 6:43:14 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: romanesq

Dont you find it interesting that on the 2nd or 3rd day posting, this “larp” predicted Twitter and social media would be doing “mass censoring” his message?


39 posted on 08/10/2020 6:46:02 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: MNDude

I don’t find stupidity all that interesting, no.

Censorship is what Big Tech is doing. There’s an election coming don’t ya know.
It’s not new.


40 posted on 08/10/2020 7:35:05 PM PDT by romanesq (Flubro, from the people who brought you the stupidity of grifters & the letter Q)
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