Screen shot/RedditA popular Reddit board dedicated to promoting and discussing the QAnon conspiracy theory was banned from Reddit on Wednesday for “repeated violations of the terms of our content policy,” Reddit said in a statement. As of Wednesday, visitors to the r/greatawakening subreddit were instead greeted with a message explaining the ban. [You’ll never guess how the QAnon conspiracy theorists feel about all this media coverage]As QAnon has grown, the conspiracy theory’s consequences have spread from the fringes of the Internet into mainstream media and real life. The ban is not the first high-profile subreddit ban this week. Reddit banned r/MillionDollarExtreme for violating its rules against violent content.

Source: Washington Post September 12, 2018 21:36 UTC