When an article on Facebook detailed a QAnon conspiracy theory about a “16-Year Plan to Destroy America,” commenters demanded death for those supposedly involved, including former president Barack Obama, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and other Democrats.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
As QAnon grew, Facebook and Twitter missed years of warning signs about the conspiracy theory’s violent nature
Fears of clamping down on authentic speech created a ‘Frankenstein’
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October 3, 2020 at 12:45 p.m. EDT