On Oct. 6 Facebook published a press release stating that they will move forward in banning all content pertaining to QAnon and, “militarized social movements” operating on facebook. Facebook plans to seek out all profiles, accounts, and pages that involve QAnon. This is all in hopes to remove all socialized content that advocates violence offline like those of militia and other terrorist groups. Since August, Facebook has made an update regarding how the social media giant addresses several movements like QAnon.

The work of removing content, according to Facebook, “will take time and [will] need to continue in the coming days and weeks.” Facebook’s Dangerous Organizations Operations team will be enforcing this policy proactively to detect content for removal rather than relying on user reports.

We're strengthening our enforcement efforts against the QAnon conspiracy theory movement. Starting today, we will remove any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content. https://t.co/YJb4E46BJf

— Meta Newsroom (@MetaNewsroom) October 6, 2020

https://twitter.com/MrBoom/status/1313747629004726272?s=20

Facebook banning QAnon content 3.5 years late, AFTER it becomes clear Trump is unlikely to win, is very Facebook

— Karl McDonald (@karlusss) October 7, 2020

QAnon has spread mass misinformation through social media, such as conspiracy theories that the coronavirus is fake. Facebook and Instagram have plans to monitor and remove all socialized threats, and many hope that Twitter and other social media platforms will also follow with similar policies.