Posted on 08/19/2020 12:31:04 PM PDT by RandFan
Facebook on Wednesday banned roughly 900 groups and pages and 1,500 ads related to the QAnon conspiracy.
The removals were part of an expansion of the platform's policies on violent rhetoric, which also resulted in 10,000 Instagram pages and nearly 2,000 Facebook groups associated with QAnon having their reach limited.
The QAnon theory baselessly claims that President Trump and the military are working together to expose a shadowy cabal of figures in media, entertainment and politics that are trafficking children.
In a blog post explaining the policy change Wednesday, Facebook noted that groups and pages dedicated to the theory have increasingly become a place to celebrate violent actions, even if some of them are not directly used to organize those actions.
The FBI labeled the loose QAnon community a potential domestic terror threat last year.
Moving forward, the pages affiliated with QAnon — as well as ones ties to "offline anarchist groups that support violent acts amidst protests" and "US-based militia organizations" — will be prohibited from purchasing ads or selling products in the platform's marketplaces.
Nonprofits that Facebook identifies as supporting those movements will also be barred from using the platform's fundraising tools.
QAnon, militia and anarchist protest groups will also be pushed down on users' newsfeeds and search engines.
These steps by Facebook, similar to ones taken by Twitter last months, come as increasing attention is being paid to the role social media platforms have played in the rapid growth of unhinged conspiracy theories like QAnon.
NBC News reported last week that an internal Facebook investigation uncovered thousands of groups and pages with millions of members and followers supporting the QAnon conspiracy theory. The Guardian has reported on similarly large groups.
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The MSM does this to MAGA too. Trump doesn’t advocate violence, the MAGA movement doesn’t advocate violence, but if those with mental health issues acting in hazardous manner are either falsely portrayed as MAGA or are MAGA, the MSM “gets” to claim MAGA is dangerous. That’s why there are restrictions on wearing MAGA hats, MAGA shirts, confrontations wherein MAGA is declared dangerous and racist.
Q Anon content does not advocate violence. If some people with mental health issues choose to cite the movement, likely because it’s attacked by the MSM as “bad” and so they get to claim opposition to controlled social conformity (lookin’ at you MSM), then the movement is then vilified.
Just like MAGA “violence”, I really doubt all the Q Anon “incidents” are really related to Q Anon. The MSM owns the airwaves, the FBI field office that wrote a bulletin citing the MSM as “reliable sources” are portraying a false reality and then using it to censor and shut down MAGA/QAnon.
How did you accomplish that. I’ve not even been in FB Jail.
You should. It’s interesting and General Flynn is part of it or at least identifies with it.
Same could be said about any group. Try again.
I remember the whole thing built out of the idiotic idea that the Mueller Team was actually working for Trump to put Obama and Clinton and some of their cronies in jail for being pedophile child traffickers or something dumb like that. Now it's all froot-loops talking about how Tom Hanks is a cannibal pedophile and JFK junior is secretly Q.
It's dumb as hell and I'm not sorry to see it gone.
You can’t post articles from UNZ.com at all. It is an internet news magazine that actually has some excellent articles and can appear both coming from the left or the right. But they gave it the info wars treatment. I have to mention it as unz dot (.) com.
“Q anon may not be condoning violence but a certain number of its adherents are mentally unstable enough to be influenced by it.”
The same thing can be said about BLM.
I very rarely use facebook. I mean I leave it for months at a time. I don’t really have much reason to be there.
“All things “Q” related can be had at https://gab.com";
Also BitChute and Parler. We need to support alt social media.
That’s true! Far more crimes have been committed by BLM rioters.
I wasn’t even aware of Parler. I’ll check it out. Thanks!
That wasn’t the question
That wasn’t the question or the issue
That’s wasnt the issue or the question.
I don’t hve time to do your research for you. Sorry
So you’ve got nothing.
What was?
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