Facebook users who were not search for selective information on QAnon were redirected to an extensive priming on the conspiracy theory due to a “ glitch ” in a system project to defend it , according to Facebook .
The troupe squeeze on Wednesday that its “ Redirect Initiative”—which is speculate to direct Facebook user that come out to be on the verge of tumbling down a QAnon - sized rabbit hole to the the Global internet on Extremism and Technology ( GNET)—was triggering on pages it should n’t have been . According toBusiness Insider , Facebook deactivated the malfunctioning creature just two hours after launch because it kept activating on Page that were unrelated to spread out the tidings of a fictitious outside pedophile ring ( or Page merely adjacent to the conspiracy , such as that of Fox News hostTodd Starne ) .
When we first launched the Redirect Initiative for QAnon today there was a bug that make mass to see selective information about this subject when they searched for unrelated footing . We ’ve hesitate this Redirect while we fixate the issue.https://t.co/YJb4E46BJf
A pro-Trump rally in Ronkonkoma, New York in October 2020.Photo: Stephanie Keith (Getty Images)
— Meta Newsroom ( @MetaNewsroom)October 21 , 2020
TheGNET pagein question warns that QAnon is “ war-ridden and anti - establishment political orientation settle in a quasi - apocalyptic desire to ruin the existing , ‘ corrupt ’ domain rules of order and usher in a prognosticate golden age , ” “ evocative of legion violent , anti - government , white patriot , and neo - Nazi ultra organisations across the orb . ” ( True ! One could also call it thefuture of the GOP . )
QAnon is a sprawl , far - right wing ideology which alleges that the domain is secretly consort by a cabal of Satanic “ elite ” who get high on adrenochrome extracted from the blood line of torture children . Its inception derive from an unknown person or persons using the alias “ Q ” , who post anonymously to imageboards arrogate to be a high-pitched - level military or intelligence service functionary in the Trump administration tasked with fighting say cabal . Many of its diehard adherent are vitriolically anti - Semitic and/or racist , and all are win over the pedo - Illuminati is run by popular politicians and Hollywood . Yeah .
It seems unlikely anyone incidentally landing on GNET ’s page would be drawn into QAnon as a direct result . The “ glitch , ” however , could be used as fodder for the already - converted to argue to more mainstream conservativist that Facebook is trying to report up something real .
Facebook implemented the redirects as part of a broad travail to retch all pages , grouping , and Instagram accounts of QAnon message thatbegan earlier this month — after a serial publication ofdamning media reportsshowed that millions of Facebook users had bring together groups or Sir Frederick Handley Page devoted to talk about QAnon . In response , QAnon has tried to rebrand itself by hijacking#SaveTheChildren , a hashtag start by a legitimate anti - sex trafficking organisation which now predominantly serves as a way tolaunder QAnon propaganda .
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently told employees that he does not believe situation will “ continue to adopt a lot more insurance that are restricting of a lot more content , ” after the electionaccording to BuzzFeed . Zuckerberg added that current endeavour to crackdown on hatred speech and misinformation are not due to an fundamental transformation in Facebook ’s philosophy , but due to “ an increased peril of violence and fermentation , especially around the election , and an increase jeopardy of physical harm , especially around the prison term when we gestate covid vaccines to be approved over the derive month . ”
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