Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey remotely testified by videoconference in this video-based screenshot during a Senate Judiciary hearing entitled “Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Elections” on Facebook and Twitter content moderation practices at Capitol Hill in Washington, USA, November 17, 2020.
Reuters
On Friday, Twitter announced that it would permanently suspend accounts dedicated to sharing content related to the conspiracy theory of the far right QAnon.
As part of this purge, the company suspended the accounts of Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell, supporters of President Donald Trump.
“Accounts have been suspended in accordance with our policy on coordinated harmful activities,” the company said in a statement to NBC News. “We have made it clear that we will take strong enforcement action for behaviors that could cause offline harm, and given the renewed potential for violence surrounding this type of behavior in the coming days, we will permanently suspend accounts for sharing content. of 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 come in the wake of Wednesday’s uprising at the U.S. Capitol.
Twitter Policy of coordinated harmful activities it does not allow groups engaged in activities that are harmful to Twitter or the real world.
Twitter had already taken action against thousands of QAnon-related accounts by July 2020. While some accounts involved in the QAnon movement may be hard to find, Flynn was a prominent player in the political arena and swore in to QAnon in July of a publicly available video.