Factbox: What is QAnon and how are social media sites handling it?
(Reuters) – Social media firms Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc have launched crackdowns on content material materials linked with the unfounded and sprawling conspiracy concept QAnon.
WHAT IS QANON?
QAnon followers espouse an intertwined sequence of beliefs, based mostly totally on anonymous web postings from “Q,” who claims to have insider information of the Trump administration.
A core tenet of the conspiracy concept is that U.S. President Donald Trump is secretly stopping a cabal of child-sex predators that options distinguished Democrats, Hollywood elites and “deep state” allies.
QAnon, which borrows some components from the bogus “pizzagate” concept a few pedophile ring run out of a Washington restaurant, has become a “big tent” conspiracy concept encompassing misinformation about issues ranging from alien landings to vaccine safety.
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