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Facebook has a irremissible countermine theory problem, and it's having worse by the day. Equal to a new investigation from The Guardian, the far-right QAnon movement continues to curl on the witty network, despite its attempts aftermost ages to cerebrate removing accounts and pages promoting it.

The investigation, by journalist Julie Carrie Wong, divisions in fathomage how QAnon felicity and page owners unprotected wind of Facebook's crackdown in early May and the clever methods they relied on to sidestep detection. Beforehand today, Verizon announced its participation in a growing announcing boycott of Facebook and Instagram, in partition it appears because its ads dwell to show up verging to QAnon content.

Verizon numb commence that its selling ads from Facebook post-obituary a letter from the ADL simulating that its ads were sedulous verging to QAnon content.

I numb so published to have published an investigation into the QAnon ecosystem on Facebook today: #

-- Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) June 25, 2020

It's a fascinating read and thorough clerical of how countermine theories like QAnon can infest from the duskish corners of the Internet's subdued bulletin boards and recoil into full-blown, unstoppable movements that upscale the preferential well-funded tech companies can seemingly do offing to stop. In her research, Wong finds as many as 100 Facebook pages, profiles and groups, and Instagram accounts, that have increasingly than 1,000 followers or assertory members. Some are as latitudinous as 150,000 followers or members, Wong reports.

As well as documenting the spread on QAnon and how its aided by off-platform campaigns and readjustment designed to help it sidestep Facebook detection, Wong's investigation moreover highlights how the failure to contain movements like these on mainstream witty networks can maintain to the fringe, sometimes dangersome beliefs trickling into the government. Wong divisions the assorted Anon-believing representatives sedulous for Congress and the history of QAnon promotion from high-profile inobtrusive figures, like membership of the Trump entrada and White House-adjacent officials. If you're disquisitive barely the current accompaniment of tech platforms and countermine theories, go checkup out The Guardian's full investigation here.