Page 13 - aruba-today-20201016

technology Friday 16 OctOber 2020
A13

YouTube follows Twitter HEALTH

and Facebook with DOCTOR ON DUTY

Oranjestad
QAnon crackdown Hospital 7:00 pm / 10:00pm

Tel. 527 4000
By BARBARA ORTUTAY openly support QAnon. It San Nicolas
AP Technology Writer said it would remove pag- Imsan 24 hours
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — es, groups and Instagram This March 20, 2018 file photo shows the YouTube app on an iPad Tel.524 8833
YouTube is following the accounts for represent- in Baltimore. Women in Difficulties
lead of Twitter and Face- ing QAnon — even if they Associated Press PHARMACY ON DUTY
book, saying that it is tak- don't promote violence. nounced softer crack- "All of this work has been Oranjestad:
ing more steps to limit QA- The social network said it down, saying said it would pivotal in curbing the Kibrahacha Tel. 583 4908
non and other baseless will consider a variety of stop promoting the group reach of harmful conspira- San Nicolas:
conspiracy theories that factors in deciding wheth- and its adherents. But that cies, but there's even more Seroe Preto Tel. 584 4833
can lead to real-world vio- er a group meets its criteria effort faltered due to spot- we can do to address cer- Women in Difficulties
lence. for a ban. Those include ty enforcement. tain conspiracy theories OTHER
The Google-owned video the group's name, its biog- YouTube said it had already that are used to justify real- Dental Clinic 587 9850
platform said Thursday it raphy or "about" section, removed tens of thousands world violence, like QA- Blood Bank Aruba 587 0002
Urgent Care 586 0448
will now prohibit mate- and discussions within the of QAnon-videos and elimi- non," the company said in Walk-In Doctor’s Clinic
rial targeting a person or page or group on Face- nated hundreds of chan- Thursday's blog post.q +297 588 0539
group with conspiracy the- book, or account on Insta- nels under its existing poli- Women in Difficulties
ories that have been used gram, which is owned by cies — especially those that EMERGENCY
to justify violence. Facebook. explicitly threaten violence Police 100
One example would be Facebook's move came or deny the existence of Oranjestad 527 3140
videos that threaten or ha- two months after it an- major violent events. Noord 527 3200
rass someone by suggest- Sta. Cruz 527 2900
ing they are complicit in Sudoku San Nicolas 584 5000
a conspiracy such as QA- Police Tipline 11141
Ambulancia
911
non, which paints President Fire Dept. 115
Donald Trump as a secret Red Cross 582 2219
warrior against a supposed
child-trafficking ring run TAXI SERVICES
by celebrities and "deep Taxi Tas 587 5900
state" government officials. Prof. Taxi 588 0035
Pizzagate is another inter- Taxi D.T.S. 587 2300
Taxi Serv. Aruba 583 3232
net conspiracy theory — A1 Taxi Serv. 280 2828
essentially a predecessor Women in Difficulties
to QAnon — that would fall TRAVEL INFO
in the banned category.
Its promoters claimed chil- Aruba Airport 524 2424
dren were being harmed American Airlines 582 2700
at a pizza restaurant in Avianca 588 0059
Washington. D.C. A man Jet Blue 588 2244
582 7896
Surinam
who believed in the con-
spiracy entered the res- Women in Difficulties
taurant in December 2016 AID FOUNDATIONS
and fired an assault rifle. FAVI- Visually Impaired
He was sentenced to pris- Tel. 582 5051
on in 2017. Solution on Page 14 Alcoholics Anonymous
YouTube is the third of the Tel. 736 2952
major social platforms Narcotics Anonymous
to announce policies in- Tel. 583 8989
tended rein in QAnon, a Women in Difficulties
conspiracy theory they all Tel. 583 5400
helped spread. Centre for Diabetes
Tel. 524 8888
Twitter announced in July Child Abuse Prevention
a crackdown on QAnon, Tel. 582 4433
though it did not ban its Quota Club Tel. 525 2672
supporters from its plat- Women in Difficulties
form. It did ban thousands General Info
of accounts associated Phone Directory Tel. 118
with QAnon content and
blocked URLs associated
with it from being shared.
Twitter also said that it
would stop highlight-
ing and recommending
tweets associated with
QAnon.
Facebook, meanwhile, an-
nounced last week that it
was banning groups that