Facebook to ban all QAnon accounts from platform

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Social media giant Facebook escalated its efforts to stop the spread of conspiracy theories on its site.

The social media website released a statement on Tuesday that noted it was updating its policies to ban pages and accounts representing QAnon, a conspiracy theory that pushes an unsubstantiated idea that President Trump is fighting to break up a criminal organization of devil-worshiping pedophiles, on Facebook and Instagram.

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