Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown

[brooklynite]

Source: NBC News

Twitter announced Tuesday that it has begun taking sweeping actions to limit the reach of QAnon content, banning many of the conspiracy theory's followers because of problems with harassment and misinformation.

Twitter will stop recommending accounts and content related to QAnon, including material in email and follow recommendations, and it will take steps to limit circulation of content in features like trends and search. The action will affect about 150,000 accounts, said a spokesperson, who asked to remain unnamed because of concerns about the targeted harassment of social media employees.

The spokesperson said that as part of its new policy, the company had taken down more than 7,000 QAnon accounts in the last few weeks for breaking its rules on targeted harassment.

The sweeping enforcement action will ban QAnon-related terms from appearing in trending topics and the platform's search feature, ban known QAnon-related URLs and prohibit "swarming" of people who are baselessly targeted by coordinated harassment campaigns pushed by QAnon followers.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-bans-7-000-qanon-accounts-limits-150-000-others-n1234541

[LudwigPastorius]

1. It's a start.

But, what about this source of conspiracy theories, harassment, and misinformation?

[ancianita]

2. He's fed half his crap from Q Anon bots. So there's that.

[yaesu]

3. why not just say russian bot accounts, same same.nt

[BigmanPigman]

7. Can bots report en masse?

Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) Tweeted:
This was marked as sensitive content. We think bots are mass reporting us. Help spread the word and make sure people see these. We got this 💪 https://t.co/bPdsuCOJgS

Link to tweet

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[Julian English]

4. "But Twitter's taking my freedom of speech to spread toxic lies!"

It's about time.

[calimary]

6. Yes. It's about time.

These are threats to national security.

[displacedtexan]

5. They targeted Chrissy Tiegan & John Legend.

The Qnuts have been swarming them for several days, accusing them of being part of their imaginary Pedophile ring.

[Progressive Jones]

8. It's always about imaginary "leftist pedophile rings" with those a-holes. Very telling. nt

[ck4829]

10. And yet Qanon puts it's Qdrips or whatever they are called on 8chan...

A site that is known as the place where mass shooters put their manifestos on and is also delisted from Google for... rampant child porn.

Never has the saying "When you point one finger, there are three fingers pointing back to you" never been more true than with the q crowd.

[CatLady78]

9. Never mind

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Apparently even the Facebook creeps are removing qanon. I dislike Facebook but if they are doing that I can't slam them on that.

[kelly97]

11. Happy About This

Good start but need to crack down more!

[NurseJackie]

12. Will the followers and true-believers see this as "a sign" the confirms their beliefs?

[AwakeAtLast]

13. A lot of Facebook friends are very unhappy

I'm ecstatic!

[Whiskeytide]

14. There's 157k QAnon twitter accounts? Our society is so fucked! n/t