Twitter suspends 70,000 accounts linked to QAnon

Technology 02:31 PM - 2021-01-14

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Twitter has suspended more than 70,000 accounts linked to the far-right movement QAnon.

 

QAnon is a conspiracy claiming that President Donald Trump is waging a war against Satan-worshipping paedophiles in politics, business and the media.

 

Supporters were involved in the storming of the US Congress building last week.

 

Twitter has deleted accounts that “share harmful QAnon-associated content at scale”.

 

“We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behaviour that has the potential to lead to offline harm,” Twitter said in a blog post.

 

“Given the violent events in Washington, DC, and increased risk of harm, we began permanently suspending thousands of accounts that were primarily dedicated to sharing QAnon content on Friday afternoon.”

 

Twitter said there were “many instances of a single individual operating numerous accounts".

 

 

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