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YouTube cracks down QAnon conspiracists

Conspiracy theorist QAnon demonstrators protest child trafficking on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, August 22, 2020.

Expand / Conspiracy theorist QAnon demonstrators demonstration kid trafficking on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, August 22, 2020. (charge: Kyle Grillot | Getty Images)

Google-owned YouTube has been the hottest social networking platform to crack down on this pro-Trump conspiracy concept QAnon before November’s US electionbut stopped short of a complete ban on the fast spreading motion.

In a blog article on Thursday, the movie system stated that it could”prohibit articles that targets the individual or team with conspiracy theories which were used to justify real-life violence,” mentioning QAnon and associated conspiracy concept Pizzagate.

The social networking group also stated that it had eliminated”thousands of thousands” of movies and”countless stations” associated with QAnon, whose members consider US president Donald Trump is under threat by a”deep country” cabal of both Democrats and Hollywood actors involved with child trafficking.

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