Published 14:49 IST, July 22nd 2020

Twitter to suspend 'QAnon' accounts which post conspiracy theories against Trump

Over 7,000 accounts have been suspended for violating Twitter's multi-account policy, indulging in platform manipulation, and attempting to evade suspension.

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Twitter Inc anunced on July 22 that it would permanent suspend far-right conspiracy ory propagators QAn, a fringe group that claims threat of a “deep state” against US President Donald Trump. Over 7,000 accounts have alrey been suspended for violating company’s multi-account policy, indulging in platform manipulation, and ban evasion.

In a series of tweets, Twitter Safety said that micro-blogging platform has been cleat about taking strong enforcement action on behaviour that has potential to le to offline harm. It anunced that it will be taking furr action against ‘QAn’ activity across service.

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“We will permanently suspend accounts Tweeting about se topics that we kw are engd in violations of our multi-account policy, coordinating abuse around individual victims, or are attempting to eve a previous suspension,” said Twitter.

social media giant has decided to longer serve content and accounts associated with QAn in Trends and recommendations. It will block URLs associated with QAn from being shared on Twitter and will work to ensure t to highlight its activities in search and conversations.

“se actions will be rolled out comprehensively this week. We will continue to review this activity across our service and update our rules and enforcement approach again if necessary,” said Twitter.

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Facebook ban on 'Boogaloo'

Recently, Facebook Inc. designated violent US-based anti-government network ‘Boogaloo’ as a ‘dangerous organisation’ and banned it from social media platform. Facebook claimed that though network uses term Boogaloo, it is distinct from broer and loosely-affiliated boogaloo movement because it actively seeks to commit violence.

Facebook h revealed that Boogaloo groups don’t here to any particular ideology and it “ran gamut” from right to left. groups started evolving by using different terms such as “Big Igloo” and “Big Luau” to eve scrutiny of Facebook but content and discussions remained same. participants range from Black Lives Matter protesters to gun-rights vocates, to white supremacists.

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14:48 IST, July 22nd 2020