Facebook restricts more than 10,000 QAnon and US militia groups
Move is part of a broad Facebook policy shift toward movements with links to violence such as baseless internet conspiracy QAnon
Julia Carrie Wong
Wed 19 Aug 2020 20.06 BST

Facebook has taken down or restricted more than 10,000 groups, pages and Instagram accounts associated with Qanon, US-based militia groups, and organizations that promote violent acts at protests. The moves are the result of a shift in the company’s policy toward movements with links to violence that do not meet the criteria for an outright ban.

Facebook will still allow people to post content that supports these movements, but “will restrict their ability to organize” on the platform by removing them from recommendation algorithms, reducing their ranking in news feed and search results, and prohibiting them from using features such as fundraising and advertising, the company said. Facebook will also remove pages, groups and accounts that discuss violence, and said it will study the terminology and symbolism that groups typically use to disguise their intent.

The move against Qanon comes one month after Twitter cracked down on content and accounts dedicated to the baseless conspiracy theory, which was identified as a potential domestic terrorism threat by the FBI and has been linked to numerous attempted acts of violence.

“We already remove content calling for or advocating violence and we ban organizations and individuals that proclaim a violent mission,” the company said in a blogpost. “However, we have seen growing movements that, while not directly organizing violence, have celebrated violent acts, shown that they have weapons and suggest they will use them, or have individual followers with patterns of violent behavior.”

Facebook bans any expressions of support for groups that it designates “dangerous”, such as terrorist or hate groups. The new category comprises groups and movements that have “demonstrated significant risks to public safety”.

In announcing the policy shift, Facebook provided a glimpse into the size of the Qanon community on the site. The Guardian had previously documented more than 170 QAnon groups, pages and Instagram accounts with more than 4.5m aggregate followers.

On Wednesday, the company said it was removing more than 790 groups and 100 pages linked to QAnon. It is also blocking 300 QAnon hashtags and taking down 1,500 advertisements. Facebook is also placing restrictions on 1,950 groups, 440 pages, and 10,000 Instagram accounts linked to QAnon. The company said that those groups are still subject to removal pending an ongoing review.

The company is also removing 980 groups and 520 pages linked to militia organizations and groups that encourage riots, which it said included some that “identify as Antifa”. Facebook is also restricting 1,400 hashtags related to those groups.

[Did you know that...]
QAnon is a baseless internet conspiracy theory whose followers believe that Donald Trump is waging a secret battle against a Satanic “deep state” cabal of Democrats, celebrities, and powerful figures such as Bill Gates and George Soros who run the world while engaging in pedophilia, human trafficking and the harvesting of a supposedly life-extending chemical from the blood of abused children.

The narrative is based on cryptic messages published by an anonymous person or entity – “Q” – who claims to have inside knowledge of a secret battle waged by Donald Trump against the cabal. While Q emerged on the anarchic image board 4chan and currently posts on a successor site to 8chan, the movement coalesced and grew on mainstream social media sites, including Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, Discord and Facebook.

Facebook groups became crucial organizing hubs for QAnon after Reddit banned the movement in 2018 for violating its policies against incitement to violence, harassment and doxxing.

“Facebook is a unique platform for recruitment and amplification,” Brian Friedberg, a senior researcher at the Harvard Shorenstein Center’s Technology and Social Change Project, told the Guardian in June. “I really do not think that QAnon as we know it today would have been able to happen without the affordances of Facebook.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... strictions

Meanwhile all the looney lefty groups raging against Trump aren’t affected. There’s an election coming up after all. No bias at all...

TheImplication wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 6:00 am Meanwhile all the looney lefty groups raging against Trump aren’t affected. There’s an election coming up after all. No bias at all...

Yup. Antifa is ok.

TheImplication wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 6:00 am Meanwhile all the looney lefty groups raging against Trump aren’t affected. There’s an election coming up after all. No bias at all...

Well, actually no.

Facebook Inc. FB, +0.09% on Wednesday said it has taken down hundreds of Facebook Pages, groups, and Instagram accounts linked to QAnon and the Antifa movement in a move to restrict those groups' ability to organize on its social-networking platforms. Facebook has also blocked hashtags associated with QAnon, a conspiracy theorist organization[ as well as those connected to Antifa and other violent groups. "We already remove content calling for or advocating violence and we ban organizations and individuals that proclaim a violent mission," Facebook said in a statement.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/faceb ... 2020-08-19

But if you are one of those that are working to rid the world of the international cabal of pedophiles playing the victim comes as second nature I guess. That and the ability to have selective sight.



A Running List Of The Women Who’ve Accused Donald Trump Of Sexual Misconduct
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-runnin ... 2c043a7212

QAnon conspiracy website shuts down after report identifies N.J. man as operator
Updated Sep 12, 2020; Posted Sep 12, 2020
By Brent Johnson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

One of the largest websites promoting QAnon conspiracy theories has shut down after reports identified its operator as a New Jersey man.

The fact-check site Logically.ai published a report Thursday saying it discovered Jason Gelinas of Berkeley Heights as the “sole developer and mouthpiece” of Qmap.pub.

Bloomberg News also tracked the website to Galinas, an information specialist, in a story published Friday.

Qmap aggregates posts by Q, the anonymous figure at the forefront of QAnon. The core (and unproven) conspiracy theory of QAnon is that President Donald Trump is fighting a secret, “deep state” group of pedophiles — including celebrities and Democratic politicians — who worship Satan and run an international child sex-trafficking ring.

QMap averaged more than 10,000 monthly visits in May, June, and July of this year, according to web analytics firm Similar Web Ltd.

The site’s creator has been known online only as “QAppAnon.”

As of Saturday morning, the website is no longer operational. It now reads, “Origin Server Offline.”

NJ Advance Media on Saturday morning left a message for Gelinas via a phone number linked to his company, Patriot Platforms LLC. But the message was not immediately returned.

Bloomberg said Gelinas declined to comment on whether he was behind the Qmap website when reached outside his home.

“I’m not going to comment on any of that,” Gelinas said, according to the report. “I’m not going to get involved. I want to stay out of it.”

He did call QAnon a “patriotic movement to save the country," according to the report.

Last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the first time identified fringe conspiracies as a domestic terrorist threat, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News. The document specifically mentions QAnon.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2020/09/qan ... rator.html

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I wish i was in the loop

Harvesting the blood of abused children for everlasting life seems up their with the Church of Scientology’s ideas of aliens dominating the planet. (see movie Battlefield Earth).

From FB, Note the WaPo link



Jennifer Litton Tidd
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“Here's your Q Prophet, coming to light.

Jim Watkins, along with his son Ron Watkins, is the instigator and promoter of Q and, so far, much evidence is pointing to him actually being Q himself.

Jim Watkins is an American expatriate pig farmer living in the Philippines.

Jim Watkins is the owner of the dark website, 8chan (now morphed into 8kun), the birthplace and incubator of QAnon.

Now get this: 8chan is notorious for a forum for child pornography as well as being the breeding ground for several mass shootings (New Zealand Mosque shooting, Synagogue shooting in Poway, CA, El Paso shooting against Mexicans), as well as forums for white supremacism, racism, anti-Semitism, and far-right conspiracy theories.

The provider Cloudfare finally had to remove its support of 8chan due to 8chan's sordid, sleazy history, which removed 8chan, along with Q, for a while.

Q (utterly dependent upon 8chan) disappeared right along with 8chan until 8chan finally returned as 8kun with support of a Russian provider known for enabling cybercriminal activity (because no other provider would collaborate with such a sleazy site).

8chan is not all. Jim Watkins also seized ownership of 2channel, a far-right Japanese textboard known for fueling xenophobia and racism (especially against Koreans).

Going back farther, Jim Watkins began his internet career by starting (get this) a Japanese pornography website that circumvented Japan's porn laws, while he was enlisted in the US Army in the 90's.

This only scratches the surface of the creepy activity of Jim Watkins and his dark web.

His son Ron Watkins is administrator of 8kun.

In the comments below I provide linked sources.

If you still feel confident Q is your Holy Prophet standing for Righteousness and battling child sex trafficking, child-eating Jewish cabals, Satan-worshiping liberal celebrities, and holding up your Holy Messiah in the White House to drain the swamp, carry on.”
~Joseph Fitzgerald

Pictured: Jim Watkins with his Q pin.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technolo ... m-watkins/

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