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Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown

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Twitter will ban QAnon-related terms from appearing in trending topics and its search feature, ban known QAnon-related URLs, and ban “swarming” of victims who are baselessly targeted by coordinated harassment campaigns pushed by its followers.
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QAnon followers have been targeting perceived political enemies of Donald Trump in recent weeks with harassment campaigns, sometimes with threats of violence, accusing them of being child-eating cannibals.

Twitter is looking to stomp that out.
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Twitter said a memo from the FBI that made the rounds last year and the real-world violence perpetrated by QAnon adherents was a part of their decision-making process for the sweeping enforcement actions against Q accounts.

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Twitter's spokesperson said while the targeted enforcement against QAnon fell under Twitter’s existing platform manipulation rules, its classification of QAnon as coordinated harmful activity was a new designation.

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Chrissy Teigen, one of Twitter's most famous users and a critic of President Trump, has been a target of harassment by QAnon accounts recently.

Swarms of conspiracy theorists even targeted friends, some of whom are private figures, with violent threats.
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Ben Collins
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Eight accounts had all of their data downloaded in Wednesday's Twitter hack by hackers.

That means they have access to direct messages of those eight high-profile accounts. Also, they now have their address books, if they synced it.
This is a doomsday scenario, and the hackers who have claimed credit for this attack and have spoken to news outlets have not mentioned it.

They said it was purely for Bitcoin and account takeovers and they let it get out of hand. Not sure why we're taking their word for it.
In conclusion, if this Twitter hack was really bad, I suppose we'll find out in October.
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Major hack here. Elon Musk, Bill Gates, tons of smaller verified accounts.

I'm guessing it's SIMjacking?
Uber and Apple hacked. Starting to look like the sort of major vulnerability posited in the tweet below.

It's weird they started with smaller accounts then did juggernauts next, though.

It's like robbing a bank and taking the lollipops first.

Kanye was just hacked.

Here's @David_Ingram with the developing story.
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I think about all of my colleagues on my beat who are on actual kill lists from neonazis, who wake up to viciously racist and sexist coordinated campaigns from groups whose ultimate goal is trying to incite domestic terror.

Ain't no news cycle for them. They just keep reporting.
In fact, mentioning the depression that comes along with this sort of targeting by neonazis is viewed as whininess. So largely, we don't. We don't even tell our bosses. We might be viewed as weak. We just keep going, because it's important, we know it, and nobody else will do it.
Just some stray thoughts on a Tuesday. No reason. Back to work.
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