Facebook announced on Tuesday the withdrawal of all accounts, pages and groups linked to the conspiracy movement "QAnon", on its main platform and on Instagram, while the number of followers of this far-right pro-Trump movement has exploded in the run-up to the US presidential election.
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The social media giant, regularly accused by civil society of not sufficiently fighting against actors spreading hatred, had already cracked down on QAnon on several occasions.
This time, even the pages that “do not contain violent content” will be deleted if they are associated with the movement, the Californian group said in a statement.
