Down the rabbit hole : how QAnon conspiracies thrive on Facebook
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/25/qanon-facebook-conspiracy-theories-algorithm
Guardian investigation finds more than 3m aggregate followers and members support QAnon on Facebook, and their numbers are growing In early May, QAnon braced for a purge. Facebook had removed a small subset – five pages, six groups and 20 profiles – of the community on the social network, and as word of the bans spread, followers of Q began preparing for a broader sweep. Some groups changed their names, substituting “17” for “Q” (the 17th letter of the alphabet) ; others shared links to back-up (...)
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