Twitter Permanently Suspends Over 70,000 Accounts Primarily Dedicated to QAnon Content

Tweets labeled for violations of the social network’s civic integrity policy can no longer be liked, replied to or retweeted

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Outgoing President Donald Trump wasn’t the only one to lose his tweeting privileges in the wake of last Wednesday’s violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, as Twitter said it began the process last Friday of permanently suspending over 70,000 accounts that were primarily dedicated to sharing content related to conspiracy theory QAnon.

Twitter Safety said in a blog post that the actions are being implemented to eliminate behavior on its platform that has the potential to lead to offline harm, adding that many of the people affected had multiple accounts that were sharing QAnon-associated content at scale.

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