Facebook announced new measures to crack down on QAnon and “Militarized Social Movements” Tuesday, as well as bans on thousands of pages and groups.

“Starting today, we will remove any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content,” Facebook said Tuesday.

QAnon is the conspiracy theory surrounding an anonymous internet persona named "Q" who claims President Trump is taking part in a secret battle against a satanic child sex trafficking ring, cannibals and the "deep state." It began on the 4chan web forum but found more attention on Facebook.

The move comes a little more than two weeks after Facebook said it would ban pages, groups and Instagram accounts that “discussed potential violence” and enacted measures that restricted the reach of other QAnon content.

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“We’ve been vigilant in enforcing our policy and studying its impact on the platform but we’ve seen several issues that led to today’s update,” Facebook said. “For example, while we’ve removed QAnon content that celebrates and supports violence, we’ve seen other QAnon content tied to different forms of real world harm, including recent claims that the West Coast wildfires were started by certain groups, which diverted attention of local officials from fighting the fires and protecting the public.”

In addition to banning QAnon groups, Facebook also said it had begun stepping in to direct people to “credible” resources when they searched for hashtags that QAnon supporters were using to recruit new members.

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“We expect renewed attempts to evade our detection, both in behavior and content shared on our platform, so we will continue to study the impact of our efforts and be ready to update our policy and enforcement as necessary,” the company said.

Enforcement actions were already underway, but the company said it expected to take weeks to reach its goal.

The move comes as Facebook and other tech giants face increasing pressure from government entities across the political spectrum.

The company, along with Apple, Google and Amazon, is being investigated by a House anti-trust subcommittee, according to a draft memo leaked Monday.

The social media giant also came under fire from President Trump, who has called for a repeal of the Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which created protections that shield websites from liability for content posted by third-party users. He had signed an executive order in May that aimed to ban “selective censorship” under the provision.