YouTube bans videos that promote QAnon conspiracies, but with caveats
Video platform follows Facebook and Twitter seeking to crack down on potentially dangerous misinformation
15 October 2020 - 22:20
San Francisco — YouTube will ban videos that promote QAnon and other conspiracy theories, but only if they target specific people or groups, seeking to crack down on potentially dangerous misinformation after criticism the service helped these fringe movements expand.
The decision comes a week after Facebook said it would remove accounts associated with QAnon, a far-right movement that the FBI has reportedly labelled a domestic terrorism threat...
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