Facebook has now joined Twitter and TikTok in shutting down online QAnon communities, but it might be too late.
, a recent internal investigation conducted by Facebook has produced some rough data on the movement’s size, as it connected millions of the site’s users to massive QAnon groups and pages. The evaluation’s initial results identified that more than 1 million accounts are members of 10 notable QAnon Facebook groups, a feature that allows users with shared interests to create public or private spaces to interact and organize.
Facebook will reportedly look at the results of the investigation to determine whether or not the site’s already massive population of QAnon supporters will be allowed to continue organizing unfettered. Last week, Facebook did ban a public QAnon group that had nearly 200,000 members, which was reportedly one of the largest such communities on the site. A spokesperson for the site toldthat the company is actively monitoring similar groups.
QAnon followers don’t just use Facebook to build up massive virtual communities, as these online interactions are bleeding out into the real world. Facebook recently found $12,000 worth of ads, according to NBC News, “praising, supporting, or representing” QAnon that have run on the site, including one ad—of 185 total—aimed at organizing a “QAnon March for Children” in Detroit.
Facebook asserts that the platform consistently take “action against accounts, Groups, and Pages tied to QAnon that break our rules,” stated a spokesperson, who requested anonymity in NBC’s report due to concerns that QAnon followers would retaliate against them personally. “We have teams assessing our policies against QAnon and are currently exploring additional actions we can take.”
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