Twitter is combating the spread of posts and accounts related to the conspiracy movement known as QAnon. On Tuesday evening, the social media company shared a message on its Twitter Safety account …
On Tuesday evening, the social media company shared a message on its Twitter Safety account detailing its plan, saying posts about QAnon could lead to danger outside of the Twitter platform.
“We will permanently suspend accounts tweeting about these topics that we know are engaged in violations of our multi-account policy, coordinating abuse around individual victims, or are attempting to evade a previous suspension — something we’ve seen more of in recent weeks,” it continued. , about 150,000 Twitter accounts will be suspended due to the new policy, and 7,000 are related to QAnon.“In addition, we will: No longer serve content and accounts associated with QAnon in trends and recommendations. Work to ensure we’re not highlighting this activity in search and conversations. Block URLs associated with QAnon from being shared on Twitter,” the account wrote.
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