Facebook and Twitter have removed tens of thousands of accounts dedicated to the baseless conspiracy theory

Gone are the huge “Stop the Steal” groups that spread falsehoods

like the deadly Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6.

said Jared Holt, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab who focuses on domestic extremism.

A communist from Right Wing Watch*.

Loosely tying these movements together is a general distrust of a powerful, often leftist elite

GASP!

Among them are purveyors of anti-vaccine falsehoods, adherents of Trump’s “Big Lie”

Where Facebook groups once openly referenced QAnon, you’ll now see others like “Since you missed this in the so called MSM,” a page referencing “mainstream media” that boasts more than 4,000 followers. It features links to clips of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and to articles from right-wing publications such as Newsmax and the Daily Wire.

But the single biggest factor appears to have been the QAnon crackdown on Facebook and Twitter. Despite well-documented mistakes that revealed spotty enforcement

"They were not censoring enough".

After the Jan. 6 insurrection, the company began permanently suspending thousands of accounts that it said were “primarily dedicated” to sharing dangerous QAnon material.

How can anyone read that article and not realize that it's pure propaganda?