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Twitter announces it will permanently suspend 'QAnon' accounts

Twitter Safety tweeted out a series of tweets laying out an update to their policy against posts that have the potential to lead to harm offline, but managed to avoid addressing Antifa and Black Lives Matter in the update, instead focusing on the conspiracy/LARPing group QAnon.

Twitter Safety started with: "We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behaviour that has the potential to lead to offline harm. In line with this approach, this week we are taking further action on so-called ‘QAnon’ activity across the service."

Then: "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."

They continued by saying that they would "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."