Facebook To Ban All Pages, Groups Associated With QAnon

October 6, 2020 big tech, deep state

Archived 6 years ago from CBS San Francisco
Facebook To Ban All Pages, Groups Associated With QAnon

MENLO PARK (CBS SF / CNN) – Facebook announced Tuesday that it will ban all pages, groups and Instagram accounts associated with the conspiracy theory QAnon from its platform. “Starting today, we’ll remove any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even without violent …

QAnon

October 6, 2020 big tech, deep state

Archived 6 years ago from WQOW News 18
Facebook says it will ban groups that openly support QAnon – WQOW TV News 18

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook said it will ban groups that openly support QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that paints President Donald Trump as a secret warrior against a supposed child-trafficking ring run by celebrities and “deep state” government officials. Less than two months ago, …

QAnon

October 6, 2020 big tech

Archived 6 years ago from The New York Times
Facebook Amps Up Its Crackdown on QAnon

Facebook, facing criticism that it hasn’t done enough to curb a fast-growing, fringe conspiracy movement, said on Tuesday that it would remove any group, page or account that openly identified with the QAnon. The change drastically hardens earlier policies outlined by the social media company. In …

QAnon

October 6, 2020 antivax, big tech

Archived 6 years ago from NBC News
Facebook bans QAnon across its platforms

Facebook said Tuesday that it is banning all QAnon accounts from its platforms, a significant escalation over its previous action and one of the broadest rules the social media giant has put in place in its history. Facebook said the change is an update on the policy it created in August that …

Facebook and Twitter censor Trump post comparing COVID-19 to the flu

Vaccines

October 6, 2020 big tech, cdc, covid19, trump

Archived 6 years ago from TheBlaze
Facebook and Twitter censor Trump post comparing COVID-19 to the flu

Facebook on Tuesday removed a post from President Donald Trump comparing COVID-19 to the flu for violating its rules on coronavirus misinformation. A spokesperson for Facebook confirmed to CNN that the company removed the president’s post. Trump’s message, which asks if the United States will …

QAnon

October 6, 2020 big tech, deep state

Archived 2 years ago from East Bay Times
Facebook says it will ban QAnon groups

By Barbara Ortutay | Associated PressOAKLAND — Facebook said it will ban groups that openly support QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that paints President Donald Trump as a secret warrior against a supposed child-trafficking ring run by celebrities and “deep state” government officials. The …

Billionaires’ Media: The Smearing of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Vaccines

October 6, 2020 5g, big tech, bill gates, covid19, rfk jr

Archived 6 years ago from Global Research
Billionaires’ Media: The Smearing of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

On Sept. 17, Toronto-based The Globe and Mail newspaper published an extraordinary and very lengthy article vilifying Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and calling him “a top voice of misinformation on social media.” The headline for the piece summarizes its range: “How a Kennedy became a ‘superspreader’ of …

QAnon

October 6, 2020 5g, antivax, big tech

Archived 6 years ago from FRANCE 24
How did QAnon conspiracies spread so fast in 2020?

Issued on: 06/10/2020 – 12:00 Advertising Read more Hong Kong (AFP) The increasingly visible and vocal followers of QAnon promote a bewildering blend of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, worrying everyone from Facebook to the FBI. Once on the fringes of the internet and focused on US politics, …

QAnon

October 5, 2020 big tech, bill gates, covid19, deep state

Archived 6 years ago from Bangkok Post
QAnon conspiracies go global in pandemic ‘perfect storm’

QAnon conspiracy theories have found believers in dozens of countries around the world during the coronavirus pandemic. HONG KONG: Powered by fear, anger and big tech’s algorithms, the QAnon conspiracy movement has exploded from the US political fringe into the global mainstream during the …

QAnon

October 5, 2020 big tech, deep state

Archived 6 years ago from Financial Times
Why Facebook needs to be more paranoid about QAnon

In May, Facebook casually invited me to join a conspiracy cult that believes the world is controlled by a Satan-worshipping, baby-eating, deep-state coterie and can only be saved by US president Donald Trump. “Join groups to connect with people who share your interests,” the social media network …

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