⁍ YouTube said in a blog post it would begin enforcing these expanded hate and harassment policies immediately and would ‘ramp up’ in the weeks to come.

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⁍ QAnon is an unfounded and sprawling conspiracy theory that claims that U.S. President Donald Trump is secretly fighting a cabal of child-sex predators.

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⁍ The conspiracy theory also borrows some elements from the bogus pizzagate theory about a pedophile ring run out of a Washington, D.C. restaurant.

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– Google-owned YouTube says it’s banning conspiracy theories that have “been used to justify real-world violence.” In a blog post Thursday, the company said it would begin enforcing its expanded hate and harassment policies immediately and would “ramp up” in the weeks to come, Reuters reports. YouTube said it has removed tens of thousands of QAnon-related videos and terminated hundreds of QAnon-related channels since updating its hate speech policy in June. The company’s chief executive officer, Susan Wojcicki, told CNN this week that many QAnon videos were “borderline content.” QAnon is an unfounded and sprawling conspiracy theory that claims that President Trump is secretly fighting a cabal of child-sex predators that includes prominent Democrats, Hollywood elites, and “deep state” allies. It was named by the FBI as a potential instigator of domestic terrorism. The conspiracy theory also borrows some elements from the bogus pizzagate theory about a pedophile ring run out of a Washington, DC, restaurant. YouTube said it has removed tens of thousands of QAnon-related videos and terminated hundreds of QAnon-related channels since updating its hate speech policy in June 2019.