QAnon, Alex Jones, David Icke, many anti-vaxxers and Donald Trump have all been banned or suspended from Twitter and YouTube, along with dozens of public figures, while Facebook and Instagram have removed more than 12 million pieces of content they believed to be spreading disinformation and promoting false, discredited and dangerous conspiracy theories.Ī decade ago, people believed that an unregulated world wide web would be the saviour of free expression and would lead (in the case of the Arab Spring) to a hoped for revolutionary emancipation. Over the past six months, there has been a unified drive from politicians and Big Tech to ban all conspiracy theories and theorists from the internet. Conspiracy theories are the new evil of our time-or so we thought.
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