Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies remotely via videoconference in this screengrab made from video during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled ‘Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election’, on Facebook and Twitter’s moderation practices for content , on Capitol Hill in Washington, USA, November 17, 2020.
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Twitter announced on Friday that it would permanently suspend content-sharing accounts related to the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory.
As part of this purge, the company has suspended the accounts of Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell, supporters of President Donald Trump.
“The accounts have been suspended in accordance with our coordinated malicious activity policy,” the company said in a statement to NBC News. “We have made it clear that we will take strong enforcement action against behavior that can lead to offline harm, and given the renewed potential for violence surrounding this type of behavior in the coming days, we will permanently suspend accounts dedicated solely to QAnon sharing. content. “
Flynn and Powell are active in the QAnon community. Twitter has also suspended the account of Ron Watkins, the operator of the 8kun website, formerly known as 8chan.
The suspensions follow Wednesday in the wake of the uprising in the Capitol.
Twitter’s Coordinated policies for malicious activities does not allow groups engaged in activities that cause harm on Twitter or in the real world.
Twitter had previously taken action against thousands of QAnon-related accounts in July 2020. While some accounts involved in the QAnon movement are hard to find, Flynn was a prominent actor in the political sphere, and he took an oath in July. QAnon. a video that is publicly available.