TikTok Is Banning Accounts That Spread QAnon Theories And Disinformation

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TikTok Is Banning Accounts That Spread QAnon Theories And Disinformation
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“Content and accounts that promote QAnon violate our disinformation policy and we remove them from our platform,” TikTok confirmed toThe company added that it took “significant steps” to make QAnon content and hashtags harder to find, with the platform redirecting related terms to their community guidelines.

that accounts sharing content related to the pro-Trump conspiracy theory, which has exploded in popularity in recent years, will be deleted.that the policy had been in place “for a while”, however, the move appears to have been “quietly” confirmed to Media Matters earlier this month, before being confirmed to NPR on Sunday.. That’s how many combined views were racked up across 14 QAnon-related hashtags on TikTok as of June this year, according to Media Matters.

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