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YouTube Scrubs Some QAnon Content As Social Media Platforms Revamp Moderation Policies

YouTube has removed tens of thousands of videos and purged hundreds of channels spreading QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory that has inspired real-world violence.

Here & Now’s Tonya Mosley speaks with Ina Fried, chief technology correspondent at Axios.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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