Twitter will continue to remove priles that spread misinformation.
Jack Dorsey and friends are making moves over on Twitter. The popular microblogging site is reportedly cracking down on “QAnon” as it has reportedly removed over 7,000 priles associated with the conspiracy theory-based phenomenon. According to NPR, “QAnon” is perpetuated by supporters Trump, and their goal is to spread misinformation and “absurd claims” about people who oppose the president or his agenda.
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Twitter ficials have been attempting to come up with new strategies to handle the spread misinformation with the addition labels, and this is just another step. “We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to fline harm. In line with this approach, this week we are taking further action on so-called ‘QAnon’ activity across the service,” Twitter wrote on their ficial account.
It’s expected that 150K “QAnon”-related accounts will be removed. “We will permanently suspend accounts Tweeting about these topics that we know are engaged in violations our multi-account policy, coordinating abuse around individual victims, or are attempting to evade a previous suspension — something we’ve seen more in recent weeks.” Check out the tweets below.