Facebook Bans All Groups, Pages Linked to QAnon Conspiracy
- Rules expanded to keep QAnon from organizing on social network
- Individual accounts of followers, posts still allowed
An attendee holds a QAnon sign before the start of a rally with Donald Trump in Lewis Center, Ohio in 2018.
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Facebook Inc. is expanding its approach to the QAnon conspiracy movement, saying it will remove all Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts linked to QAnon’s followers in an effort to limit their reach and growth online.
Facebook had previously banned QAnon Pages, Groups and accounts if they called for or celebrated violence. But that meant Groups and Pages that peddle the QAnon conspiracies, but were not explicitly violent, remained on the service.