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TikTok makes it clear: QAnon is prohibited on the platform

QAnon is running out of major online platforms where it can spread its conspiracies.

In a statement to NPR, the viral video app TikTok has confirmed that it bans accounts spreading QAnon disinformation. 

QAnon is a far right conspiracy theory based on the unfounded belief that President Donald Trump is secretly battling a satanic global child-trafficking ring run by the Democrats and liberal Hollywood elites.

"Content and accounts that promote QAnon violate our disinformation policy and we remove them from our platform," a TikTok spokesperson said in a statement to Mashable. "We've also taken significant steps to make this content harder to find across search and hashtags by redirecting associated terms to our Community Guidelines." Read more...

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