Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, August 20th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Facebook has removed tons of stuff from what it calls US-based militia organizations.

AirB&B has filed for its IPO.

Cobalt is an interesting raise, but also some new tech might involve

removing cobalt for better batteries.

DoorDash launches grocery delivery and is Palantir, the first high-profile company to flee Silicon Valley.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Facebook has further cracked down on QAnon on its platform,

removing 790 QAnon affiliated groups

and restricting another 1950.

Facebook also took action on 440 Q-Anon-related

Facebook pages and over 10,000 Q-Anon-related

Instagram accounts, quoting the New York Times. and on in March, activity on some of the largest Q&on groups on the social network, including likes, comments,

and shares of posts rose 200 to 300 percent in the last six months, according to data gathered

by the New York Times.

We have seen growing movements that while not directly organizing violence have celebrated

violent acts shown that they have weapons and suggest they will use them or have individual

followers with patterns of violent

behavior Facebook said in a statement adding that it would also block

QAnon hashtags such as hashtag digital army and hashtag the storm the actions

less than three months before November's presidential election the phenomenon with believers who alleged falsely that the world was run by a

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