Facebook removes popular Quebec conspiracy theorist as part of campaign against QAnon
One of Quebec's most prominent advocates of the QAnon conspiracy movement, which spreads falsehoods about COVID-19, has been kicked off Facebook.The page belonging to Radio-Québec, a media outlet with 77,000 followers on Facebook, was taken down on Wednesday, Facebook Canada said. Several other smaller pages that circulate QAnon content in Quebec disappeared from the site as well. The move follows Tuesday's announcement that Facebook would remove any group or page that openly identifies with QAnon, regardless of whether they promote violence. That marked a significant escalation of Facebook's existing policies aimed at limiting the influence of a movement that U.S. law enforcement considers a national security risk. After the new guidelines were released by Facebook on Tuesday afternoon, senior officials at the company's Canadian offices discussed whether they should be applied to Radio-Québec, according to sources familiar with the matter."We're now removing Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts repres
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