Facebook approved 200 ‘dangerous’ QAnon ads

Facebook pushed adverts linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory into its users’ feeds as many as 2.4m times this spring and summer, profiting from the movement and helping it grow even as employees investigated its potential for violence. The social media giant first removed a network of fake accounts seeking to spread QAnon’s beliefs in April this year, and finally banned all QAnon groups, pages and Instagram accounts from its services last week. However, between those two points, Fac