Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies remotely by videoconference in this screenshot taken from a video during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression and the 2020 Election,? In the moderation practices of Facebook and Twitter content, on Capitol Hill in Washington, USA, November 17, 2020.
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Twitter announced on Friday that it would permanently suspend accounts dedicated to sharing content related to the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory.
As part of this purge, the company suspended the accounts of Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell, supporters of President Donald Trump.
“The accounts have been suspended in accordance with our policy of coordinated harmful activities,” the company said in a statement to NBC News. “We make it clear that we will take strict law enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to cause harm offline and, given the renewed potential for violence around that type of behavior in the coming days, we will permanently suspend accounts that are exclusively dedicated to sharing content QAnon. “
Flynn and Powell are active in the QAnon community. Twitter also suspended the account of Ron Watkins, who is the administrator of the 8kun website, formerly known as 8chan.
The suspensions follow the US Capitol insurgency on Wednesday.
From Twitter Coordinated harmful activity policy does not allow groups involved in activities that result in damage to Twitter or the real world.
Twitter had already taken action against thousands of QAnon-related accounts in July 2020. Although some accounts involved in the QAnon movement may be hard to find, Flynn was a prominent actor in the political sphere and swore an oath to QAnon in a publicly available July video. .