Some tech giants have taken steps to scrub QAnon believers from their platforms — but not Amazon
Amazon has long taken a haphazard, patchwork approach to policing merchandise for sale on its platform. Though its policies explicitly prohibit “products that promote, incite or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance or promote organizations with such views,” it has long served as a
, with a ProPublica investigation finding as recently as last spring that the platform actively promoted such books. In 2019, after receiving criticism regarding spreading medical misinformation by hosting anti-vaxx content, Amazon removed a that vaccines cause autism, as well as a handful of popular “documentaries” including the notorious anti-vaccine film Yet it’s still relatively easy to find such content on the platform, and medical misinformation experts have publicly taken the platform to task for failing to appropriately police such items.
Under its offensive materials policy, Amazon’s content guidelines prohibit “products that promote, incite or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance or promote organizations with such views.” Kathleen Stansberry, associate professor of communications at Elon University, says QAnon, which has a great deal of overlap with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, falls in that category.
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