Just days before Election Day, Facebook is restricting the Save the Children hashtag which the extremist movement QAnon hijacked to push falsehoods about the exploitation of children by Democrats including presidential nominee Joe Biden.
“Earlier this week, we stepped up how we enforce our rules against QAnon on pages, events, and groups. Starting today, we’re limiting the distribution of the ‘save our children’ hashtag given we've found that content tied to it is now associated with QAnon,” Facebook said in a statement.
Users searching for that hashtag will now see “credible child safety resources,” Facebook said.
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The move is part of a widening QAnon crackdown on Facebook. Facebook users searching for that hashtag and related hashtags already were being directed to credible child safety resources, the company said in a blog post. QAnon content has also been "down-ranked," meaning it's far less visible on Facebook's platforms.