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Twitter Purges Tens Of Thousands Of Accounts For ‘Sharing QAnon Content’

Tim Pearce
Twitter Purges Tens Of Thousands Of Accounts For ‘Sharing QAnon Content’
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Twitter has banned tens of thousands of accounts for posting content connected with the QAnon conspiracy since rioters broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

The company, led by CEO Jack Dorsey, announced in a statement on Tuesday that it had purged the platform of more than 70,000 accounts since last week, claiming that the accounts were sharing content that could “lead to offline harm.” Typically, Twitter’s mass bans have focused on fake accounts run by bots. Its latest ban has included many accounts controlled by real people, however.

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