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Twitter Purges QAnon Conspiracy Accounts

Platform has banned 7,000 accounts and will restrict many others

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QAnon conspiracy theories have spurred violent real-world acts, such as Pizzagate. Photo Illustration: Kacy Burdette; Sources: Twitter, Unsplash

By Scott Nover

July 22, 2020

Twitter has begun purging content related to QAnon, a set of pro-Trump conspiracy theories that maintain, among other things, that a mysterious entity called the “deep state” is actively working against the president.

Scott Nover
@ScottNover scott.nover@adweek.com Scott Nover is a platforms reporter at Adweek, covering social media companies and their influence.
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