now to a social media crackdown on conspiracy groups in the run-up to election day youtube is removing videos related to groups like q and on whose theories have led to violence and whit johnson joins us with the story good morning whit george good morning to you youtube is just the latest video sharing giant to toughen restrictions on conspiracy theories like q anon but the company admits that managing all of that misinformation will be a challenge saying that the content is always shifting and evolving hours before that town hall in which president trump refused to denounce
the conspiracy group q anon i know nothing about it i do know they are very much against pedophilia they fight it very hard youtube launched a new crackdown on the group whose followers are sometimes visible at pro-trump rallies donning the letter q on t-shirts and signs q's plans save the world the platform owned by the same parent company as google saying in a statement we are taking another step in our efforts to curb hate and harassment by removing more conspiracy theory content used to justify real world violence additionally we've removed tens of thousands of q
and on videos and terminated hundreds of channels under our existing policies i am 100 behind cue the movement that started almost three years ago is based on the unfounded conspiracy theory that a group of satan worshipping child sex trafficking a-list celebrities and politicians are trying to secretly overthrow president trump videos espousing the conspiracy have been a key part of spreading its beliefs now youtube says it will begin ramping up its enforcement immediately this move comes one week after facebook announced its own ban on pages groups and instagram accounts connected to q and on the fbi
recently called those conspiracy theories a potential domestic terrorism threat george they've got to keep an eye on it okay wood thanks very much well hey there gma fans robin roberts here thanks for checking out our youtube channel lots of great stuff here so go on click the subscribe button right over right over here to get more of awesome videos and content from gma every day anytime we thank you for watching and we'll see you in the morning on gma
