Facebook bans QAnon accounts across all platforms

Facebook said that the policy will bring to parity what weve been doing on other pieces of policy with regard to militarised social movements, such as militia and terror groups.

Were starting to enforce this updated policy today and are removing content accordingly, but this work will take time and will continue in the coming days and weeks,

Our Dangerous Organisations Operations team will continue to enforce this policy and proactively detect content for removal instead of relying on user reports.

It is a conspiracy theory that claims that high-profile Democrats and Hollywood celebrities are members of a child-eating group that is being eliminated by the president.

In the past week QAnon has claimed that Mr Trump is not suffering from coronavirus but has been carrying out secret missions in their predicted war.

They have also been convinced that Joe Biden wore a wire during the first presidential debate and have been waiting for new information that would reveal the Russian probes as a hoax.

With the Facebook ban having been predicted since the summer, many members of the group have tried to avoid moderation by dropping Q references and hiding content under child protection hashtags.