Twitter Has Taken Down More Than 7000 QAnon Accounts

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Twitter has taken down more than 7000 QAnon Accounts on Tuesday. With the rising conspiracy movement over abuse and harassment concerns Twitter has taken down more than 7000 QAnon accounts to limit the spread of conspiracy theories by the ‘QAnon’ supporters. This removal takes place to prevent the spread of misinformation by many QAnon account holders over the social media platform.

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According to Twitter’s spokesperson, “as part of its new policy, Twitter has taken down more than 7,000 QAnon accounts in the last few weeks for breaking its rules on targeted harassment.”

Members of this group (informal, pro-Donald Trump group) believe that “ the United States has been ruled for decades by a criminal organization involving people they describe as the Satan-worshipping global elite, including Hollywood stars and the “deep state.” Moreover, members of the right-wing group also plotting a secret against Trump and the group members are targeting political opponents by posting embarrassing and harassing content on the social media platform.

Twitter Has Taken Down More Than 7000 QAnon Accounts

Twitter Has Taken Down More Than 7000 QAnon Accounts

According to the widely used social media site, Twitter, “We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm, In line with this approach, this week we are taking further action on so-called ‘QAnon’ activity across the service”.

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1285726277719199746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1285726278868402177%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2020%2F07%2F21%2Ftwitter-qanon-ban%2F

This action will affect about 150,000 Twitter account, and more than 7000 Twitter accounts are already banned. Twitter will stop recommending accounts related to QAnon, and also the material related to QAnon. Now, the social media app will also stop recommending other materials like email and follow recommendation of the QAnon accounts.

Also, Twitter is planning to permanently ban the accounts of users who are violating any kind of the policies around platform manipulation, said by the spokesperson. The spokesperson kept unnamed because of the social media employee harassment. And Twitter needs to take this action because the harm is related to the conspiracy theory.

The baseless conspiracy theory is supported by QAnon center, a so-called “deep-state” group created by some political and business leaders, also some Hollywood stars, who worships Satan, abusing & murdering children and trying to take down President Trump.

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