Poll of the Day > Facebook bans all QAnon groups as dangerous amid surging misinformation

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FrndNhbrHdCEman
10/07/20 12:00:39 AM
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https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-qanon-idUKKBN26R3JQ

Facebook Inc FB.O on Tuesday classified the QAnon conspiracy theory movement as dangerous and began removing Facebook groups and pages as well as Instagram accounts that hold themselves out as representatives.
The step escalates an August policy that banned a third of QAnon groups here for promoting violence while allowing most to stay, albeit with content appearing less often in news feeds. Instead of relying on user reports, Facebook staff now will treat QAnon like other militarized bodies, seeking out and deleting groups and pages, the company said in a blog post here.
Since the August restrictions, some QAnon groups have added members, and others used coded language to evade detection, for example referring to cue instead of Q. Meanwhile, adherents have worked to integrate themselves in other groups, such as those concerned with child safety and those critical of restrictions on gatherings due to the coronavirus, according to researchers at Facebook and elsewhere.
While weve removed QAnon content that celebrates and supports violence, weve seen other QAnon content tied to different forms of real world harm, including recent claims that the west coast wildfires were started by certain groups, Facebook wrote.
QAnon messaging changes very quickly and we see networks of supporters build an audience with one message and then quickly pivot to another.
Recent QAnon posts have spread false information about voting and about COVID-19, researchers said, even claiming that President Donald Trump faked his diagnosis of COVID-19 in order to orchestrate secret arrests.
Classed as a potential source of domestic terrorism by the FBI, QAnon is driven by an anonymous internet poster nicknamed Q who claims to be a Trump administration insider. The core, nonsensical claim is that Trump is secretly leading a crackdown against an enormous pedophile ring that includes prominent Democrats and the Hollywood elite.
There has been no surge in arrests, and the fictitious Satanic rituals that the group cites echo longstanding legends used to anger people for political reasons, often against minorities.
Trump has praised the group as patriotic, and more than a dozen Republican congressional candidates have promoted it.

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shadowsword87
10/07/20 12:01:16 AM
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Nice.

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papercup
10/07/20 12:01:47 AM
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How long until some Q psycho tries to shoot up Facebook HQ to "free the kids" or some shit?

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Mead
10/07/20 12:04:45 AM
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hey look its that thing they should have done a long time ago

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shadowsword87
10/07/20 12:05:44 AM
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Mead posted...
hey look its that thing they should have done a long time ago

Better late than never.

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BlackScythe0
10/07/20 12:12:07 AM
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The immediate thought is "why did it take years for people to start going after them?" then you remember how incredibly stupid qanon is.

It's easy to want to ignore something so ridiculous but it just keeps getting bigger and increasingly becoming a public safety risk how did we get to a place where something so stupid could radicalize people to the point we gotta worry about terrorist attacks happening over made up stories.
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FrndNhbrHdCEman
10/07/20 12:17:48 AM
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BlackScythe0 posted...
The immediate thought is "why did it take years for people to start going after them?" then you remember how incredibly stupid qanon is.

It's easy to want to ignore something so ridiculous but it just keeps getting bigger and increasingly becoming a public safety risk how did we get to a place where something so stupid could radicalize people to the point we gotta worry about terrorist attacks happening over made up stories.
Cause only dark skinned people like myself are a danger. /s

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Mead
10/07/20 12:36:26 AM
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shadowsword87 posted...
Better late than never.

very true

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Phantom_Nook
10/07/20 1:28:43 AM
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That Red Pixel guy is gonna be buttmad.
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FrndNhbrHdCEman
10/07/20 1:42:20 AM
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Phantom_Nook posted...
That Red Pixel guy is gonna be buttmad.
Especially since Wanded went down so hes on BigNASX now.

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CyborgSage00x0
10/08/20 1:15:30 PM
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Should have happened forever ago, but about time. Cue the crocodile tears of "CoNsErVaTivE voices being silenced!"

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FrndNhbrHdCEman
10/08/20 1:21:02 PM
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CyborgSage00x0 posted...
Should have happened forever ago, but about time. Cue the crocodile tears of "CoNsErVaTivE voices being silenced!"
Yup. But you wont hear them in here. Lol. Zeus has me blocked.

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BlackScythe0
10/08/20 1:23:01 PM
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FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...
Yup. But you wont hear them in here. Lol. Zeus has me blocked.

Oh @Zeus how do you feel about this?

Does this get him in even if he blocked?
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FrndNhbrHdCEman
10/08/20 1:50:45 PM
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BlackScythe0 posted...
Oh @Zeus how do you feel about this?

Does this get him in even if he blocked?
Think so. If you arent blocked hell see the tag but he wont see this topic until he unblocks me.

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papercup
10/08/20 1:53:09 PM
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It's a nice start. But social media in general needs more independent oversight. It's ridiculous that Q was allowed to spread for that long.

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RCtheWSBC
10/08/20 1:59:37 PM
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Related: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/08/facebook-bans-media-consultancy-running-troll-farm-pro-trump-youth-group/

Facebook said Thursday that it will permanently ban from its platform an Arizona-based marketing firm running what experts described as a domestic "troll farm following an investigation of the deceptive behavior prompted by a Washington Post article last month.
The firm, Rally Forge, was working on behalf of Turning Point USA, Facebook concluded in an inquiry that led to the removal of 200 accounts and 55 pages, as well as 76 Instagram accounts many of them operated by teenagers in the Phoenix area. The fake accounts, some with either cartoonlike Bitmoji profiles or images generated by artificial intelligence, complemented the real accounts of users involved in the effort, which largely entailed leaving comments sympathetic to President Trump and other conservative causes across social media.

Facebook stopped short of penalizing Turning Point USA, the prominent conservative youth organization based in Phoenix, or its president, Charlie Kirk, 26, saying it could not determine the extent to which the groups leaders were aware of the specific violations carried out on their behalf, such as the use of fake accounts. Twitter also acted against the operation on Thursday, suspending 262 accounts involved in platform manipulation and spam" in addition to the several hundred accounts already removed last month following questions from The Post but similarly did not boot Turning Point USA, a tax-exempt nonprofit group founded in 2012, or its affiliates from the online platform.

The accounts and pages Facebook removed had developed a following of nearly 400,000 accounts across Facebook and Instagram. They had purchased nearly $1 million in advertising.

Creating the appearance of a social media groundswell in support of Trump, the effort was carried out by teenagers, some of them minors, paid to participate in the campaign. The users set up and wielded fake personas in addition to using their personal accounts, Facebook said. The teenagers drew the posts from a shared online document and scored bonuses if their activity spurred higher engagement, said two people familiar with the effort who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect the privacy of their underage nephew.

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FrndNhbrHdCEman
10/08/20 2:02:22 PM
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papercup posted...
It's a nice start. But social media in general needs more independent oversight. It's ridiculous that Q was allowed to spread for that long.
It is but according to Zeus the Charlottesville protestors deserved to have a voice.

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deoxxys
10/08/20 2:08:27 PM
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What's Qanon? Members of anonymous but theyre queer?

I remember reading an article saying facebook was going on a ban raid and they even banned a Fallout 76 "militia" group.

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papercup
10/08/20 2:10:13 PM
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Qanon is a set of debunked conspiracy theories about satanists trafficking children in the basements of pizzerias and only Trump can stop them.

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ForteEXE3850
10/08/20 2:11:59 PM
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deoxxys posted...
What's Qanon?

Pedophile illuminati.
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papercup
10/08/20 2:12:21 PM
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Also, Q started as a meme on 4chan, and now it's a political movement.

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BlackScythe0
10/08/20 2:14:20 PM
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papercup posted...
Qanon is a set of debunked conspiracy theories about satanists trafficking children in the basements of pizzerias and only Trump can stop them.

Also they apparently recently added that cannibalism was involved, before it was just pedophilia now it's cannibal pedophilia as of a couple months ago I think.
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YoukaiSlayer
10/08/20 2:17:08 PM
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Yes and it's also somehow fooling the evil conspiracy people but still able to not fool and be understood by random moron on facebook that thinks he sees the truth of it all finally "because things weren't adding up". Apparently if you tell people something they think is false, is false, they will accept just about any explanation as the truth from you. Seems to be a glitch in the brains of idiots.

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dedbus
10/08/20 2:18:25 PM
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So cool that data harvesters are looking out for us.
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RCtheWSBC
10/08/20 2:19:18 PM
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Yeah if y'all haven't deleted your fbs already then I dunno what to tell ya >_> Full of sponsored disinformation and troll farms

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BlackScythe0
10/08/20 2:21:35 PM
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YoukaiSlayer posted...
Yes and it's also somehow fooling the evil conspiracy people but still able to not fool and be understood by random moron on facebook that thinks he sees the truth of it all finally "because things weren't adding up". Apparently if you tell people something they think is false, is false, they will accept just about any explanation as the truth from you. Seems to be a glitch in the brains of idiots.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/words-matter/201810/ why-people-ignore-facts

I had to split that it kept saying I had a word more than 80 characters in length.

No we're just hardwired to only accept facts we want to.

A number of studies document the many ways in which our political party distorts our reasoning. One study found that people who had strong math skills were only good at solving a math problem if the solution to the problem conformed to their political beliefs. Liberals were only good at solving a math problem, for instance, if the answer to that problem showed that gun control reduced crime. Conservatives were only good at solving this problem if the solution showed that gun control increased crime. Another study found that the higher an individuals IQ, the better they are at coming up with reasons to support a positionbut only a position that they agree with.

Tell people bat shit crazy stuff and they will connect dots in their own mind if it makes people they disagree with bad and reinforces their dislike of them.
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FrndNhbrHdCEman
10/08/20 2:22:07 PM
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YoukaiSlayer posted...
Yes and it's also somehow fooling the evil conspiracy people but still able to not fool and be understood by random moron on facebook that thinks he sees the truth of it all finally "because things weren't adding up". Apparently if you tell people something they think is false, is false, they will accept just about any explanation as the truth from you. Seems to be a glitch in the brains of idiots.
Like the flat earthers.

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papercup
10/08/20 2:22:50 PM
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FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...
Like the flat earthers.

Big Globe needs their cut

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SunWuKung420
10/08/20 2:24:06 PM
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FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...
Like the flat earthers.

Or those that believe what cacciato posts...

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Wanded
10/08/20 2:29:53 PM
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RCtheWSBC posted...
Full of sponsored disinformation and troll farms
wait, when did we start talking about twitter and reddit?

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FrndNhbrHdCEman
10/08/20 2:31:20 PM
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papercup posted...
Big Globe needs their cut
Lol.

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FrndNhbrHdCEman
10/08/20 2:31:58 PM
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RCtheWSBC posted...
Yeah if y'all haven't deleted your fbs already then I dunno what to tell ya >_> Full of sponsored disinformation and troll farms
This. Mines long gone.

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shadowsword87
10/08/20 5:34:19 PM
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RCtheWSBC posted...
Yeah if y'all haven't deleted your fbs already then I dunno what to tell ya >_> Full of sponsored disinformation and troll farms

I got a secondary account because that's what my friends use to talk, but I *just* use it as an IRC forum at this point.

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Judgmenl
10/08/20 5:40:16 PM
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A pig farmer in The Philippines should have never been able to make something go so out of wack that Facebook had to ban it.

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