QAnon founder may have been identified thanks to machine learning
Researchers believe two men were the primary authors of posts attributed to Q.
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Facebook researchers were warning about its recommendations fueling QAnon in 2019
A document titled 'Carol's Journey to QAnon' raised concerns more than a year before Facebook banned the group.
Facebook has a new policy for fighting 'coordinated social harm'
It can take action against groups using legitimate accounts to break their rules.We have two newsletters, why not sign up for both?
Discord banned 2,212 servers for extremist content in the second half of 2020
That's nearly double the number it deleted in the first half of the year.
Facebook didn't do enough to stop election misinformation, report says
Mark Zuckerberg will testify at a Congressional hearing on misinformation later this week.
Democrats ask Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to rework their suggestion algorithms
They say those platforms helped radicalize the people who attacked the US Capitol.
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Amazon is finally enforcing its rules that ban QAnon-promoting goods
It may take a few days to remove all of the products.
Twitter purged 70,000 QAnon accounts in three days
Some accounts have lost thousands of followers as a result.
Twitter cuts off QAnon conspiracy accounts as employees push to ban Trump
Michael Flynn, 8kun administrator Ron Watkins and Sidney Powell have been removed from Twitter.
Patreon is the next tech giant to crack down on QAnon
It's deleting accounts that push the conspiracy theory.
TikTok is banning accounts that share QAnon-related content
Videos promoting the conspiracy theory violate the service's disinformation policy.
Even Peloton is cracking down on QAnon
Fitness tech isn't immune to conspiracy theories, apparently.
Facebook has banned QAnon
Facebook previously only targeted pages and groups that discussed violence.
Facebook bans ads supporting QAnon
The company will also take on QAnon’s #savethechildren obsession.
Facebook has removed more than 6,500 militia groups and pages
A month-old policy cracking down on “militarized social movements" has resulted in thousands of takedowns.
Facebook will no longer recommend health groups
Groups have been a major source of misinformation on the platform.
Twitter bans far-right extremist group the Oath Keepers
The company says the group violated its policies on violent extremist groups.
How to talk to people who believe in QAnon
The way you approach someone is just as important as what you say.
Facebook removes hundreds of QAnon groups
The company isn’t banning the conspiracy theory outright, but is trying to limit its spread.
