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August 20, 2020

Facebook Bans Anti-Fascist and Anarchist Groups Along with QAnon Conspiracy Pages
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Facebook has removed nearly 800 QAnon groups as part of a broader purge.
Facebook also removed several prominent anti-fascist and anarchist
pages, including ones connected to the sites Crimeth Inc.com and Its
Going Down.org, which criticized the purge, saying, "Suppressing the
voices of those who seek to protect their communities from institutional
and white supremacist violence is an intentional decision to normalize
violence as long as the ones employing it hold institutional power."


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