Facebook Bans Hundreds Of QAnon Groups, Pages And Instagram Accounts

Facebook on Wednesday announced that it has banned hundreds of pages, groups, and Instagram accounts tied to "US-based militia organizations and QAnon, according to a blog post.

The company claims they have "seen growing movements that, while not directly organizing violence, have celebrated violent acts, shown that they have weapons and suggest they will use them, or have individual followers with patterns of violent behavior."

So - a group which has done nothing wrong, but might, and who have scary followers, is no longer allowed on the platform.

QAnon followers believe that President Trump is part of a military intelligence operation by 'white hat' insiders to take down the deep state by arresting and prosecuting corrupt government officials and satanic pedophiles. Whether this is true or not, the left has decided the QAnon movement is a threat, and Facebook's blacklisting follows a similar move by Twitter last month.

And while Facebook claims they've removed '980 group, 520 pages and 160 ads' by 'militia organizations and those encouraging riots, including some who may identify as Antifa' - a surprising number of Antifa accounts remain which include aggressive, armed members who routinely organize protests over Facebook. For example, a Texas Antifa Cell, Red Guards Austin, has a blog post entitled "Everywhere a Battlefield" in which they claim "The war is not coming - it is here and now."

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Trump embraces QAnon conspiracy because 'they like me'

(CNN)After skirting the issue for weeks, President Donald Trump offered an embrace Wednesday of the fringe internet phenomenon QAnon, praising its followers for supporting him and shrugging off its outlandish conspiracies.

His comments reflected the highest-profile endorsement to date of the group, which has infiltrated Republican circles even as party leaders attempt to distance themselves.

"I don't know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate," Trump said in the White House briefing room.

It was a striking nod to a group that has been likened to a virtual cult and has been labeled a potential domestic terrorist threat by the FBI.

Trump admitted he wasn't intimately familiar with some of the sprawling conspiracies offered by the group's followers but said he understood it was becoming more widespread.

"I have heard that it's gaining in popularity," Trump said, suggesting QAnon followers approved of how he'd handled social unrest in places like Portland, Oregon. "I've heard these are people that love our country and they just don't like seeing it."

QAnon's prevailing conspiracy theories — none based in fact — claim dozens of Satan-worshipping politicians and A-list celebrities work in tandem with governments around the globe to engage in child sex abuse. Followers also believe there is a "deep state" effort to annihilate Trump.

But followers of the group have expanded from those beliefs and now allege baseless theories surrounding mass shootings and elections. Followers have falsely claimed that 5G cellular networks are spreading the coronavirus.

The group has also peddled conspiracies about coronavirus, the Black Lives Matter movement and vaccines – none grounded in reality.

Trump is revered among the conspiracy's followers, who believe he was recruited to help eliminate the controlling criminal conspiracy they allege is gripping the world's power structures.

Trump did not seem entirely familiar with all that on Wednesday. Instead he focused on the group's praise for him – which was enough, apparently, to overlook the cultish beliefs.

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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/19/politics/donald-trump-qanon/index.html

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