Facebook says it is growing on thousands of QAnon linked accounts and groups

08/20/2020 USA


As many as 10,000 Instagram accounts and hundreds of groups and pages on Facebook linked to QAnon received additional restrictions, Facebook said.

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The ban marks Facebook’s latest attempt to wrestle with QAnon, which includes discredited claims that began on the edge of the Internet but have since become increasingly common on mainstream online platforms and proposed by some Republican candidates for Congress .

Facebook said in a blog post that the collapse is part of a broader expansion of its anti-violence policy. The goal, it said, was to prevent members of the affected movements from organizing on Facebook, not to ban content that expresses support for them.

“Today, we are expanding our policy for dangerous individuals and organizations to address organizations and movements that have identified significant risks to public safety but do not meet the strict criteria to be identified as a dangerous organization and prohibited for presence. to have on our platform, ”the company said.

Going forward, Facebook said it would not only remove violent content associated with QAnon, U.S. military movements and violent anarchist groups, but would remove posts that “discuss potential violence.” Facebook said it will also stop recommending groups, pages and Instagram accounts linked to the movements in users’ news feeds and search results. And it will not allow ads by pages linked to the movements.

The enforcement action has affected 980 groups, 520 pages and 160 ads on Facebook linked to militia and protest movements, including some who “may identify as Antifa,” a movement on the left whose name is short for “anti-fascist,” some members of which have called for violence as a means of protest, Facebook said.
While setting new rules may be easier than enforcing them, Wednesday’s announcement follows an earlier ban this month from one of Facebook’s largest QAnon groups, which had more than 200,000 members. And Twitter last month became the first major social network to ban accounts that have shared QAnon content.

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