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Group-Chat App Discord Says It Banned More Than 2,000 Extremist Communities
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Bobby Allyn
@BobbyAllyn
New: Discord saw huge growth among extremist communities last year and had to take down more than 2,000 extremist servers, and more than 300 associated with QAnon, in the second half of last year, according to a new company report
Group-Chat App Discord Says It Banned More Than 2,000 Extremist Communities
The popular platform also reported on Monday that it deleted more than 300 communities, known on the site as "servers," that were dedicated to the conspiracy theory QAnon.
npr.org
11:00 AM · Apr 5, 2021
Bobby Allyn
@BobbyAllyn
New: Discord saw huge growth among extremist communities last year and had to take down more than 2,000 extremist servers, and more than 300 associated with QAnon, in the second half of last year, according to a new company report
Group-Chat App Discord Says It Banned More Than 2,000 Extremist Communities
The popular platform also reported on Monday that it deleted more than 300 communities, known on the site as "servers," that were dedicated to the conspiracy theory QAnon.
npr.org
11:00 AM · Apr 5, 2021
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/05/983855753/group-chat-app-discord-says-it-banned-more-than-2-000-extremist-communities