Facebook internal investigation finds millions of members in QAnon groups

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Facebook internal investigation finds millions of members in QAnon groups

Mashable

Published 10 Aug 2020

Facebook officially has a QAnon problem.

An internal investigation carried out by the social networking giant found that Facebook groups related to the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon are racking up millions of members on the platform.

According to documents provided to [INS: NBC News :INS] by a Facebook employee, the...

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