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Instagram purges several large QAnon accounts

Instagram is continuing with its targeted crackdown.

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Some large QAnon accounts on Instagram have been suspended. The news comes a few weeks after Facebook announced it would apply stricter policies to curb โ€œmisinformation,โ€ especially spread by โ€œright-wing conspiracy theoristsโ€ on all its platforms, including Instagram.

The movement has been gaining a considerable following, as evidenced by one of the suspended Instagram pages, @little.miss.patriot, which had about 300k followers. The person behind the account claimed that the account had been suspended without prior warning.

On a backup account, the account owner wrote:

โ€œI have no idea how long my page is disabled for, it will not let me log in, I have no information.โ€

@greatawakening3 claimed that @greatawakening2, which had 117k followers, has also been suspended.

Similarly, the person behind @qthewakeup claimed that they could not access their account. They said, โ€œCanโ€™t stop, wonโ€™t stop,โ€ appearing to suggest that they donโ€™t plan to let Instagramโ€™s crackdown stop them from producing content.

Other smaller accounts promoting QAnon conspiracy theories have not been suspended but many of their posts labeled โ€œfalse information.โ€

It is also unclear whether the suspensions are temporary or permanent bannings as the account owners havenโ€™t been informed by Instagram.