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Facebook follows Twitter and TikTok with wide reaching action against QAnon https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-19/facebook-removes-hundreds-of-qanon-groups-limits-thousands-more via @KurtWagner8 and @sarahfrier
Facebook follows Twitter and TikTok with wide reaching action against QAnon https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-19/facebook-removes-hundreds-of-qanon-groups-limits-thousands-more via @KurtWagner8 and @sarahfrier
As part of the move against QAnon:
Facebook removed 790 groups, 100 pages and 1,500 ads
Restrictions added to 1950 groups and 790 Facebook groups
Limits put on over 10,000 Instagram accounts https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-19/facebook-removes-hundreds-of-qanon-groups-limits-thousands-more via @KurtWagner8 and @sarahfrier
Facebook removed 790 groups, 100 pages and 1,500 ads Restrictions added to 1950 groups and 790 Facebook groups Limits put on over 10,000 Instagram accounts https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-19/facebook-removes-hundreds-of-qanon-groups-limits-thousands-more via @KurtWagner8 and @sarahfrier
As usual with social media crackdowns, we don’t know:
The names of the groups that have been removed
The size of the groups that have been removed
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-19/facebook-removes-hundreds-of-qanon-groups-limits-thousands-more vía @business
The names of the groups that have been removed The size of the groups that have been removed https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-19/facebook-removes-hundreds-of-qanon-groups-limits-thousands-more vía @business
There are also reports that they have blocked searches for some popular hashtags related to QAnon.
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In announcing their long-awaited crackdown on QAnon, Facebook also namechecked militia and some groups "who may identify as Antifa”
Read the full announcement here: https://twitter.com/fbnewsroom/status/1296159949672914944
Read the full announcement here: https://twitter.com/fbnewsroom/status/1296159949672914944
The namecheck of Antifa has proved particularly controversial as it allowed many on the right to spin the story as “Facebook says it will ban Antifa groups..."
More pressing though is the fact that as an indirect result of Facebook’s actions, Trump openly acknowledged #QAnon during a press conference. https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1296210163993587712
. @AmarAmarasingam has a good thread explaining why this is so significant here: https://twitter.com/amaramarasingam/status/1296227281287942156
