Facebook Bans QAnon Accounts Across All Its Platforms

Our Dangerous Organizations Operations team will continue to enforce this policy and proactively detect content for removal instead of relying on user reports, a release on Tuesday stated, announcing the more pro-active approach.

The move is one of the largest actions that Mark Zuckerbergs massive social media networks have made up unto this point regarding any political group. Previously, Facebook had banned close to 800 QAnon groups discussing potential violence, an act that employees reportedly felt did not go far enough.Though there was surely some level of overlap between the soon-to-be-removed pages, an internal audit published in August showed that the top QAnon groups on Facebook had over 3 million members and followers combined.

In July, Twitterbannedthousands of QAnon accounts due to their potential to lead to offline harm, while TikTok beganblockinghashtag searchers of the conspiracy Google announcedit would block shopping searches related to the conspiracy, saying that the search engine does not condone products that promote hatred, intolerance, discrimination or violence against others.

The action may help to deplatform the massive pan-conspiracy, which, according to recent polling, is supported by as much as 7 percent of U.S.

And with her Democratic challenger now out of the race, GOP House candidate and noted-Q fan Marjorie Taylor Greene is all but guaranteed to represent the people of Georgias 14th district, as well as the conspiracys nation-wide followers, in the halls of Congress come next year.

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