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An internal Facebook investigation has reportedly uncovered thousands of groups and pages on the social network that support this QAnon conspiracy theory. These groups and pages have more than 3 million members and followers, according to NBC News, which reviewed internal Facebook documents.
QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory that claims there is a "deep state" conspiracy against President Donald Trump and his supporters.
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According to NBC News, Facebook has been investigating QAnon groups and sites since at least June, and may consider treating the movement similar to how it deals with anti-vaccination content. Facebook downgrades the ranking of groups or pages this spreads misinformation about vaccines and excludes them from recommendations. Other social networks, including Twitter and Reddithave also taken action against content that supports the QAnon conspiracy theory.
When asked by CNET about the NBC news report, Facebook announced Tuesday that teams were evaluating its policies against QAnon and considering further action.
"The enforcement of QAnon on Facebook is not new: We are consistently taking action against accounts, groups and pages that are linked to QAnon and violate our rules," said a company spokesman for Facebook. "Just last week we removed a large group with QAnon affiliations for violating our content policies and removed a network of accounts for violating our coordinated bogus conduct policy."
Facebook said it last Thursday removed a network of fake accounts linked to RomaniaSome of them covered various political issues in the US, including the upcoming November election and QAnon.
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