Social media platform Twitter on Monday said that the company has taken down over 70,000 accounts sharing contents related to far-right co...
Social media platform Twitter on Monday said that the company has taken down over 70,000 accounts sharing contents related to far-right conspiracy theory QAnon since January 8. The action came following the storming of United States Capitol complex by President Donald Trump’s supporters on January 6.
“Since Friday, more than 70,000 accounts have been suspended as a result of our efforts, with many instances of a single individual operating numerous accounts,” Twitter said in a blog post. “These accounts were engaged in sharing harmful QAnon-associated content at scale and were primarily dedicated to the propagation of this conspiracy theory across the service.”
Supporters of QAnon have pushed disproven and discredited several conspiracy theories, including a claim that Trump is secretly fighting a cabal of child-sex predators comprising prominent Democrats, Hollywood figures and others. Twitter had said on January 8 that it would permanently ban accounts pushing QAnon content.
In the blog, the social media platform said that misleading and false content around the US presidential elections were the basis of the January 6 incitement of violence at the Capitol.
“Now that the results of the election have been officially certified by Congress, we updated our Civic Integrity policy on Friday to aggressively increase our enforcement action on these claims,” it said....
