QAnon: YouTube moves to purge 'harmful conspiracy theories'

YouTube has become the latest social media giant to announce a sweeping crack down on content linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory.

The company said it would ban material targeting a person or group with conspiracy theories that have been used to justify violence, such as QAnon.

Twitter and Facebook have already taken similar steps to root out QAnon.

The QAnon movement alleges US President Donald Trump is battling a cabal of elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles.

The FBI last year issued a warning about "conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists" and designated QAnon a potential domestic extremist threat.cons