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YouTube cracks down on QAnon conspiracists Conspiracy smackdown — Video platform follows Facebook and Twitter but stops short of full ban. Hannah Murphy and Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, Financial Times  -  10/16/2020, 7:47 AM Enlarge   /  Conspiracy theorist QAnon demonstrators protest child trafficking on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, August 22, 2020. Kyle Grillot | Getty Images reader comments 19   with 14 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Google-owned YouTube has become the latest social media platform to crack down on the pro-Trump conspiracy theory QAnon ahead of November’s US election, but stopped short of a full ban on the rapidly spreading movement. In a blog post on Thursday, the video platform said that it would “prohibit content that targets an individual or group with conspiracy theories that have been used to justify real-world violence,” citing QAnon and related conspiracy ...

'A Little Bit Concerned': Trump Looks to Boost Iowa Support President Donald Trump is trying to shore up support from constituencies that not so long ago he thought he had in the bag: big business and voters in the red state of Iowa. 'A Little Bit Concerned': Trump Looks to Boost Iowa Support More By ZEKE MILLER, BILL  BARROW AND AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday sought to shore up support from constituencies that not so long ago he thought he had in the bag: big business and voters in the red state of  Iowa . In a morning address to business leaders, he expressed puzzlement that they would even consider supporting his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, arguing that his own leadership was a better bet for a strong economy. Later, the president held his third campaign rally in three nights, this time in Iowa, a state he won handily in 2016 but where Biden is making a late push. Trump claimed to be leading in the mo...