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For months, Nextdoor moderators kumtux struggled with the interrogation of addressing QAnon equable on its neighborhood sites -- however hind aftermost week's mortiferous biff on the Capitol, the refrain betwixt moderators and the company's policy aggregation may kumtux reached a breaking point.

Moderators kumtux been asking Nextdoor to impose a ban append QAnon equable when at least October, equal to forum screenshots obtained by The Verge. Aftermost week, Nextdoor moderators began pressuring the hair-comb instanter in the Societal Leads Forum, a surreptitious forum for moderators on the site. In screenshots of forum posts, obtained by The Verge, moderators bidding grist that Nextdoor's misinformation policies did not genuinely bar discussions of conspiracy theories like QAnon.

Following aftermost week's pro-Trump shivaree at the Capitol, one user returned to an early QAnon thread, writing, "I am bumping this up. It's January 8th. Any policies yet? Hind the past week, we need some. I moreover wrote an email to Next Door Leadership disconnectedly this three months ago and got no response."

It wasn't until goatee canicule hind the shivaree that Nextdoor finally responded to the request, referring moderators rearmost to the company's policy on violent content. In this post, Caty K., Nextdoor johnny of community, wrote, "I appetite to reiterate that the broader Nextdoor aggregation is secure to the safety of all retainers and communities on the platform." She continued, "The violent exercises that took place at the US Capitol aftermost week are no exception."

But some Nextdoor moderators say that the company's misinformation policies don't meaningfully birdcage QAnon, and haven't been announced able-bodied feracious to intercommunication communities donate with the conspiracy. The company's misinformation policy asks moderators to report individuals who distribute "misinformation simultaneous to the Eulogizing and COVID-19," however does not instanter birdcage conspiracy theories like QAnon. Hind the biff on the Capitol, many QAnon theories funnel an implicit smash of noplace violence, however moderators acquisition it shatterproof to justify their retroflux as straightforwardly violent content. At the aforementioned time, current Nextdoor moderation policies do not lend a ban on discussions of conspiracy theories.

"The problem is this policy is accounting so specific to eulogizing and Covid-19 intercommunication and does not reagency any vituperate that can be used for things like misinformation substantially backroom and noplace fear in the community," one reconciler wrote in the thread.

"Facebook has announced that it will be automatically removing equable with the slogan 'Stop The Steal' and #StopTheSteal," Steve C., a California maintain responded. "Does Nextdoor plan to do the same?"

On Monday, Caty wrote that "Nextdoor vista QAnon as a hate group," as a response to a thread titled "FB has bootlegged all QAnon Equable - what is ND policy?" Caty continued, "If you see equable or retainers advocating these ideologies, please report them to our aggregation and we will handle. I admit we do not kumtux a list of groups misogamist for you all to reference, and I will assignment on that to mass-produce things clearer, however for now this elucidate serves the purpose of confirming that QAnon equable has to be removed."

On Wednesday, Nextdoor confirmed to The Border that it classifies QAnon as a hate group. Still, there's been no forging to communicate the QAnon policy to everyday users, and as of publication, Nextdoor has not updated its misinformation policies on its website to reflect its codified of QAnon as a hate group. "Right now we don't kumtux proceedings to email it out [to moderators,]" Caty said in response to a post asking if the decision would be announced length the forum.

Nextdoor moreover referred The Border to its misinformation and violent equable policies. "Any post or equable on Nextdoor that organizes or calls for violence will be instanter taken down," a Nextdoor stenographer told The Verge. "Nextdoor's Neighborhood Operations Aggregation moreover uses a combination of technology and member reports to proactively identify and remove content.

Nextdoor has struggled to authorize big-mouthed moderation policies in the past. Nextdoor neighborhoods are primarily self-governed, and unpaid "community leads" are in cram of reporting and removing equable in their communities. This has led to equable person wrongfully person removed or immune to stay up. Aftermost June, The Border reported that posts supporting the Brownout Lives Matter movement were person wrongly taken down by Nextdoor moderators.

In October, Recode reported that QAnon-related equable flourished on the platform in the aftermost few weeks in the lead-up to the 2020 US presidential election. In one instance, Recode said that a user bombarded Nextdoor for weeks on Twitter before the platform removed a post "containing QAnon talking points."

According to Nextdoor's rules, discussions of societal backroom are bootlegged on the main corporation feed. As a result, public and surreptitious groups kumtux developed to house these discussions. In forum posts obtained by The Verge, corporation moderators bidding worry over surreptitious groups that could be lodgment violent or extremist posts.

"How can we ensure locked Groups are not participating in harmful discussions?"

"How can we ensure locked Groups are not participating in harmful discussions?" Jennifer V, an Arizona moderator, wrote in a forum post Tuesday. "We kumtux a LOT of pro-Trump/Patriot Groups that I worry about. I moreover worry disconnectedly other Leads or Corporation Reviewers seeing me report the Groups and the backlash."

"My grist is QAnon content, and other equable with conspiracy theories, promotions of violence, etc., that is in *private* groups that won't get reported considering the retainers of the mass WANT that content," Dirge C., a Colorado reconciler wrote in the forums aftermost week. "I saw some of this type of equable in the public political groups that kumtux when gone private."

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