YouTube tightens rules for QAnon Conspiracy content

Youtube He said on Thursday that he was tighten the rules for the dissemination of conspiracy theories, pointing in particular to QAnon movement already limited on Twitter and Facebook.

The video sharing service owned by Google, said he was extending his hate and harassment policies

“Ban content directed at an individual or group with conspiracy theories that have been used to justify real-world violence.”

It could mean remove videos that threaten or harass people

suggesting that they are accomplices of a conspiracy as Pizzagate, on a Suspected child sex trafficking ring linked to former Democratic White House candidate Hillary Clinton, who operated in a Washington pizzeria.

QAnon he has adult

drastically during the pandemic because he acted as a compelling force, mixing his core tenet of anti-Semitic and white supremacist tropes with Long-standing vaccine conspiracy theories and 5G mobile technology, as well as far-right and libertarian politics.

Youtube said that before there was removed “Tens of thousands of QAnon VideosAnd canceled some channels used by the movement, especially those that explicitly threaten violence or deny the existence of major violent events.

Earlier this month Facebook bans accounts unrelated to quality control on its main social network and on Instagram.

Twitter launched an offensive against QAnon at the start of this year.

The last YouTube moving occurs in the middle of a larger voltage for spreading disinformation on social media, while some conservatives accused the platforms of bias in removing content.