Facebook purges & restricts THOUSANDS of QAnon accounts plus antifa & militia stretching definition of dangerous individuals
The social media behemoth announced a sweeping crackdown on militia groups, offline anarchist groups that support violent act amidst protests
Explaining that groups that have celebrated violent acts or shown they have weapons and suggest they will use them will have content removed under its expanded Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, Facebook reassured skittish Q fans and antifa protesters that their organizations wouldnt be banned for life just severely restricted and prevented from reaching anyone else.
Nearly 1,000 groups and pages and over 1,500 ads related to QAnon were removed in Wednesdays purge, while lesser restrictions were imposed on a whopping 10,000 Q-related Instagram accounts . The survivors were put on notice that Facebook would be monitoring them for specific terminology and symbolism being used to covertly discuss or plot violence.
In an unusual move, Facebook even went after liberal darling antifa though very gingerly, referring to militia organizations and those encouraging riots, including some who may identify as antifa in its announcement that some 1,500 groups and pages in this category had gotten the axe.
Restricted groups and pages wont be recommended to other users and will be buried deep in the platforms news feed and search functions.
They wont be allowed to advertise or sell products on Marketplace, and anyone supporting them will similarly have their commercial abilities stomped on.
However, as Facebook continues to exile ever-broader swathes of online conduct from its platforms, users must invariably ask what constitutes celebrating violent acts a phrase that would seem to describe TV news reporters who wax poetic about the beauty of our weaponry as missiles rain down on Syria as much as it does antifa kids cheering when one of their number lobs a Molotov cocktail into a police car.
The purge also fails to take into account the Streisand Effect, in which attempting to suppress content backfires and ends up drawing even more attention to that content. However, because a central tenet of QAnon is that the Deep State shadow government doesnt want Americans researching its activities, social medias heavy-handed censorship plays right into their hands.
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