Facebook has caused a major decline in QAnon related hashtags and phrases just a few weeks after announcing a crackdown on Pages, Groups, and accounts linked to QAnon.
On August 19, Facebook announced a crackdown on QAnon-related accounts and Groups, creating widespread bans that even managed to hit accounts that weren’t even associated with QAnon. Now, according to Facebook-owned CrowdTangle, traffic for hashtags and phrases related to QAnon have significantly fallen.
One of the most popular QAnon-related hashtags is #wwg1wga (where we go one, we go all), which had around 20,000 interactions the week before the crackdown and only 8,100 interactions last week. On Instagram, during the same period, interactions fell from 15 million to just 960k.
The phrase “The Storm,” which is a rallying cry for QAnon, also registered a similar decline.
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