Facebook said it will ban any pages, groups, and Instagram accounts representing the conspiracy theory QAnon from its platform. 9News
, as well as a range of militia and anarchist groups, amid what the company said was a rise in behaviour among those accounts and groups celebrating violence., secretly fighting to bring down this fictitious cabal of paedophiles.
A baseless claim about a child sex-trafficking ring, a Washington, D.C pizzeria, and Hillary Clinton has been passed around among conspiracy theorists for more than three years.But similar posts pushing other claims of arrests and "deep state" action kept appearing on 4chan. It's unclear who was behind the posts, or if the same person posted those that followed.
But while QAnon has its roots in the US - supporting and disseminating baseless theories around mass shootings and elections - it has since turned into an amorphous ideology, appropriating conspiracies from other places that sit with its anti-elite message.
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