With every major Silicon Valley tech company expanding its censorship efforts ahead of the presidential election, YouTube is the latest to filter out ‘harmful’ information, including ‘QAnon’ and ‘Pizzagate’ content.
YouTube announced an expansion of its hate and harassment policies on Thursday, and will immediately prohibit “content that targets an individual or group with conspiracy theories that have been used to justify real-world violence.” The ‘QAnon’ and ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracies were cited by YouTube as examples of this content.
QAnon is a loose movement whose followers believe that President Donald Trump is waging a behind-the-scenes war against ‘Deep State’ crooks, globalist cartels, and Satan-worshipping pedophiles. ‘Pizzagate’ refers to a theory that a Democrat-linked pedophile ring operated out of the basement of a pizzeria in Washington, DC. When the theory first spread online in 2016, an armed man opened fire on the pizzeria.