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Twitter Announces Widespread Crackdown on QAnon Activity With Potential for ‘Offline Harm,’ Removes 7,000 Accounts

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Twitter Announces Widespread Crackdown on QAnon Activity

Twitter Announces Widespread Crackdown on QAnon Activity That Has 'Potential to Lead to Offline Harm'
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Twitter announced on Tuesday that it had banned 7,000 accounts and limited 150,000 others as part of a widespread crackdown on QAnon activity on the site that “has the potential to lead to offline harm.”

Last summer, the FBI officially designated the baseless QAnon and Pizzagateconspiracy theories as new “domestic extremism” threats. Pizzagate infamously involved a bizarre myth that the basement of a Washington, D.C. pizza restaurant was a secret den of pedophilia, which prompted one fervent believer to storm the pizzeria with a loaded rifle and start shooting before surrendering to police — he was subsequently sentenced for four years in prison. Some journalists who have studied the even more byzantine and fanciful QAnon phenomenon have labeled it “Pizzagate on bath salts.”

Twitter, which hosts untold number of QAnon conspiracists who use the site to spread its message, announced it had recently begun taking significant steps to block the source of possible threats or violence spurred by the conspiracies. The moves included permanent suspension of thousands of accounts that violate its policies about having multiple users, directing swarms of abuse, also known as “brigading,” or setting up alt accounts to evade previous suspensions. In addition, the social networking site said it will hide QAnon content from trends and recommendations, avoid promoting its themes and accounts in its search function, and block links from known QAnon sites from being shared on Twitter.

According to a NBC News story with more detail on the moves, the site had already shut down or restricted numerous sites as of Tuesday.

“This action will impact approximately 150,000 accounts,” Twitter told NBC News. “The company had taken down more than 7,000 QAnon accounts in the last couple weeks for breaking its rules on targeted harassment as part of its new policy.”
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Chicity said:
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Basically they're banning accounts that talk about certain conspiracy's is the short version. Below I'll add a version with a lil more context.

To break down what QAnon is, it started on 4chan. You know how shitty outrage SJW media love running stories acting like its some end of the world type shit for ratings. Well they helped promote all these stupid conspiracy's they're currently complaining about rn.

4chan has a lot of shit posting (trolling) on a lot of the site that they find funny or w/e. Kinda like on here how we sometimes talk on shit, but are just joking. Our shitty "news" would go on there and quote some stupid post and use it as a source for w/e stupid narrative theyre trying to push, in a hyped up story. Its like if they came on here, quoted 1 person who said we need to get rid of white people and label this a hate site. Well when they did that hoping to end the site, all they did was give them free advertising and more people that would normally not know about a site like that, came to it.

To circle back what i said about shit posting, apparently on part of the site they liked writing fan fiction type conspiracy's for fun. I guess our equivalent is when we write some bullshit and end it with "stay woke". Some guy (or girl) would always write their shit and sign it with "Q" at the end as their signature. Because all postings on the site is anonymous that person was known as Q anon (they also refer to each other as anon).

Well all those new goofy white people that learned about the site from the news and their shitty journalism, went to the site, saw these posts and thought the shit was real and started believing them. People on 4chan see that, think its funny af and ramp up the fake conspiracies to troll more. Now these goofy ass white people are going all over the internet and off the internet spreading fake conspiracy theories. Then people started calling it Qanon, of off the person whos writting was the most popular and i guessed really help jump start this.
 
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