CP24 - Toronto's Breaking News for the GTA, with CP24 Breakfast, Sports, Video, Traffic Times and Weather and more. Twitter didn't limit the conspiracy theory until July 21, when it announced it was kicking off 7,000 QAnon accounts and promised to stop promoting or recommending QAnon. Advertisement. The QAnon phenomenon sprawls across a patchwork of secret Facebook groups, Twitter accounts and YouTube videos. As recently as Thursday, Facebook's algorithm still directed to and even invited users to join QAnon groups. How can I tell the difference between the flu and COVID-19? CP24 - Toronto's Breaking News for the GTA, with CP24 Breakfast, Sports, Video, Traffic Times and Weather and more. Facebook's algorithm suggested a handful of QAnon groups, including one with “Trump 2Q2Q” in its name and another that used the term “cue” to hide from the crackdown. MOST READ. 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And time and time again they are proving unwilling.”. But the social media companies haven’t succeeded at even that limited goal, a review by The Associated Press found. 5-year-old helps crack San Francisco Zoo theft case, YouTube follows Twitter and Facebook with QAnon crackdown, Earth breaks September heat record, may reach warmest year, WestJet cutting flights to Atlantic Canada, laying off staff, Canada joins U.S.-led Artemis Accords to send human explorers back to Moon and beyond, CREA reports Canadian home sales set record for September, up 45.6% from last year. A Toronto man accused of harassing people on the Internet is facing additional charges after police received complaints from two more people. Too much candy: Massachusetts man dies from eating bags of black licorice, Ontario Alfalfa sprouts recalled due to possible Salmonella contamination, Silver lining? Many of those Twitter profiles featured QAnon terminology or imagery. The AP also discovered more than a dozen popular QAnon accounts on Twitter that collectively maintain a following of nearly 1.5 million users, almost all of which were recommended to users who followed other QAnon accounts. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File). Twitter Support Be in the know on the latest news, tips, and tricks. BREAKING Ontario reporting 721 new cases of COVID-19, no new deaths . Interactions -- primarily likes and comments -- with public Facebook and Instagram posts that included QAnon terms began climbing in March. Brad Pitt is now on China's version of Twitter, and his mysterious first tweet has drawn thousands of comments. Public officials in Vaughan say an "unauthorized user" is the person who posted an obscene tweet that prompted the city to temporarily suspend its official Twitter account Friday. Burger King said Monday that it reached out to Twitter to suspend its account after an apparent hack. “Their algorithm worked to radicalize people and really gave this conspiracy theory a megaphone with which to expand,” Sophie Bjork-James, an anthropologist at Vanderbilt University who studies QAnon, said of social platforms. Views of QAnon tweets has dropped by 50 per cent since its new rules took hold in July. 1. Alabama's routing of Notre Dame for its second straight national championship has been overshadowed in part by a new breakout star -- Katherine Webb, girlfriend of quarterback AJ McCarron and Miss Alabama USA 2012. Get real-time traffic information for Toronto, GTA and surrounding areas. One page called “QAnon Updates,” where 11,000 users swap conspiracy theory videos and links, remained at the top of the site's recommendations in one QAnon search. CP24 also delivers information on the move with the CP24 and CP24 traffic apps. 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That doesn't mean the brands intentionally placed their ads in the feeds of the accounts, although it does suggest that Twitter isn't preventing the ads from appearing next to QAnon material. And Twitter appears to be profiting from those QAnon accounts. Ontario students returned to the classroom in September as COVID-19 infections rise in the community. Pope Benedict XVI has put the Catholic Church on notice: Social networking sites aren't a virtual world the church can ignore, but rather a very real world that its leaders must engage if they want to spread the faith to the next generation.