BREAKING: Twitter is taking dramatic action on remaining QAnon accounts for breaking their "Coordinated Harmful Activity" rules, some of whom heavily promoted Wednesday's storming of the Capitol.
Mike Flynn, Sidney Powell, 8kun's Ron Watkins banned.
Twitter's statement below:
Mike Flynn had taken an "oath" QAnon last year. He and Sidney Powell advised the president on attempts to override the election in the last month. Powell is now being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for $1.3 billion.
Major players in the Q universe, both now banned from Twitter.
Ron Watkins, who runs the site where Q from QAnon posts and whom many believe may be Q himself, is now also banned from Twitter.
He spent the last month targeting private citizens with claims of election fraud. He lives in Japan and runs 8kun, a site born in the Philippines.
Twitter will be banning major accounts that push QAnon on the platform after its followers stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, explicitly plotting it for weeks on various social media networks.
Twitter bans Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell in QAnon account purge
Almost all of these election conspiracy theories are from TheDonaldDotWin, 4chan or 8kun.
They’re screenshotted or plagiarized on Twitter and Facebook, but the internet’s worst people are inventing this stuff anonymously, then Q influencers are catapulting it to the president.
QAnon influencers have systematically subsumed the pro-Trump information economy in the last seven weeks.
People like Lin Wood and the MyPillow guy who aggregate fan fiction from 8kun get picked up by The Gateway Pundit. Hours later it’s a “people are saying” segment on OANN.
Let's decode all of the conspiracy theories in Trump's now-infamous Georgia phone call, and show how they traveled from the QAnon network faction on Twitter and 4chan all the way to the president's mouth.
In the extraordinarily unlikely world where Section 230 gets repealed, the most likely next step would be mass deletion of Q and anti-vaxx accounts due to legal liability, the very same people who are begging for it to be repealed because they don’t know what it is.
Repeal of Section 230 would, ironically, be a doomsday scenario for QAnon accounts and anybody who prints salacious lies on social media.
It could also have a profound chilling effect for legit protest movements. It’d provide incongruous speech levers to the rich and powerful.
As Trump meets with QAnon influencers, the conspiracy theory's adherents beg for dictatorship nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
The pro-Trump internet has been calling for Trump to "#crosstherubicon," a reference to Caesar kickstarting a dictatorship.
This was a direct push from Ron Watkins, who runs the QAnon hub where Q posts, last week. Now it's being pushed by the Arizona GOP. nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
It's hard to express how divorced from reality the pro-Trump internet has become.
Some followers believe Trump is conducting a ground war in MAINE, and that he dropped a bomb killing 50k uniformed Chinese soldiers. Tens of thousands of YouTube views. nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…