Facebook has announced it will remove all accounts linked to the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory from its pages and image-sharing community Instagram.
Facebook is tightening its policy against QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that paints US President Donald Trump as a secret warrior against a supposed child-trafficking ring run by celebrities and"deep state' government officials.
The QAnon phenomenon has sprawled across a patchwork of secret Facebook groups, Twitter accounts and YouTube videos in recent years.
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