Facebook has removed a few groups, accounts, and pages linked to QAnon, taking activity for the first time against the far-right U.S. conspiracy theory circulated among supporters of President Donald Trump. 

Facebook’s term for fake accounts run with the aim of disturbing politics decisions and society. In addition to the QAnon accounts, Facebook moreover evacuated accounts connected to VDARE, a U.S. site known for posting anti-immigration substance, as well as accounts in Russia, Iran, Mauritania, Myanmar and the nation of Georgia

QAnon is a right-wing conspiracy theory centered on the unmerited conviction that Trump is waging a secret campaign against enemies within the “deep state” and a child sex trafficking ring run by satanic pedophiles and cannibals. For more than two a long time, followers have pored over a tangled set of clues purportedly posted online by a high-ranking government official known only as “Q.” The conspiracy theory first developed in a dull corner of the web but has been inching into the standard political field. 

Facebook says it found the QAnon activity as part of its investigations into suspected coordinated inauthentic behavior ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

The investigate firm found related action on Twitter as well, but famous that in itself, such activity may not have abused Twitter’s rules. Twitter permits users to post under fake names. Twitter said in case it finds information-operation campaigns that can be reliably credited to state-backed movement, it evacuates them. It said Facebook shared points of interest in the accounts it removed, but Twitter didn’t discover anything to conclude that an information operation took to put on its stage.

Source: AP