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news sport j2 money culture scene video subscription EXPANSION The QAnon group, founded as a platform against 'left elites', is growing in number in Slovenia, Serbia ... Croatia also has "its" QAnon Facebook groups, but with a significantly smaller number of followers By: Iva BadanjakPosted: August 14, 2020 4:33 pm 8468117 Alex Milan Tracy / Ddp Usa / Profimedia Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail RELATED NEWS 8257125 DISPUTED CONTENT Twitter is removing the profiles of extremists, and theorists of various conspiracies have also come under attack ENOUGH UNCOMFORTABLE 'Golden shower', former mistresses, Putin's blackmails ... Girls are parts of an explosive book about Trump The social network Facebook has been struggling to control problematic content for a long time, and at the same time new and existing QAnon groups on that network are growing unstoppably, helping to spread unfounded conspiracy theories around the world. According to a Guardian survey, the number of members of QAnon groups on Facebook increased by as much as 34 percent in a month. In late June, the Guardian announced that there were more than 100 QAnon groups, profiles and pages on Facebook with at least 1,000 members or followers. The largest of them had more than 150,000 followers. Altogether, these groups, pages, and profiles had about three million followers. Balkans After just over a month, the number of members and followers has exceeded four million, and the largest groups now have more than 200,000 members. At the same time, there was a large increase in new groups. An additional 73 pages and groups with more than 1,000 followers have been created in the last month. Among these new QAnon groups are those that bring together companions from the UK, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovenia and Serbia. Although not mentioned in the Guardian's research, Croatia also has "its" QAnon Facebook groups, but with a significantly smaller number of followers. A brief search on the social network found at least five Facebook groups and pages dedicated to QAnon. The largest was created four months ago and has almost 800 members. A much larger Facebook group than that is QAnon Balkan, which has just over 7,000 members, and Faktograf has already written about it: "The pandemic was not 'launched' to prevent the re-election of Trump as President of the United States." QAnon is an unfounded conspiracy theory that began to spread in October 2017, when an anonymous user who signed as “Q” started posting on 4chan various theories about US President Donald Trump ’s secret war against elites who worship Satan, control the world and trade children for the purpose of sexual exploitation. It relies on the so-called. “Pizzagate,” a 2016 conspiracy theory about Hillary and Bill Clinton running a pedophile chain at an American pizzeria. Twitter In essence, it is a right-wing conspiracy theory led by Donald Trump supporters. Over time, QAnon spread around the world and "adapted" theories to different areas. Thus, for example, in the Facebook group from the Balkans, posts about Soros, Vučić and manipulating figures about the coronavirus can be seen more often at the moment than about Trump and America. The great growth of the QAnon community on Facebook is linked to Twitter’s decision to combat such groups. When Twitter announced it would sharply start moving QAnon-related content, block URLs, stop recommending content, and highlight it in searches, Facebook announced similar measures. But while Twitter has begun to take action, Facebook's algorithm continues to promote such groups in a very simple way - when a person reacts to a post on a QAnon group, page or profile, they receive a recommendation for similar QAnon groups and pages. On Facebook, they claim that they are continuously working on suppressing QAnon groups that violate their rules. “Last week, we removed a large group associated with QAnon for violating our content policies, and we removed the network of accounts for violating anti-authentication policies. Our teams are evaluating the rules against Qanon and we are currently considering additional steps we can take, ”they said on Facebook. Suppression NBC reported that Facebook has been following QAnon since June, but most of the actions they have taken have done very little to combat that theory. “The response of all social networks to QAnon has been slow and anemic. However, Facebook stands out in terms of how much it has enabled the expansion of this extremist community based on conspiracy theory, ”said QAnon researcher Travis View. He adds that QAnon is a very dangerous movement that has already inspired people to commit terrorism and murder. Conspiracy theories are not new. Some of probably the most famous are the ones about faking going to the moon, Bill Gates as Satan who wants to vaccinate people with a vaccine, and lizard people who control the world. What has not been so much researched so far is the way in which their spread can be effectively prevented. Facebook is preparing to crack down on QAnon in the same way it has approached anti-vaccination propaganda, according to NBC. This includes removing such groups from search results and referral algorithms, but the question is whether this will be productive.