BREAKING: Twitter has suspended the accounts of Ron Watkins, Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn.
Alongside L. Lin Wood, suspended yesterday, they were the most high-profile amplifiers of conspiracy theories about the election, whose tweets reached millions of Mr Trump's supporters.
All four feature prominently in a piece I'm working on about the online rhetoric and disinformation that sadly contributed to the storming of the Capitol.
In the absence of Q since election day, they became the main stars of the QAnon crowd.
Of course, what this means is that from tonight onwards, they will all be on Parler and Gab.
Most Q influencers were already on those platforms, but they would not post regularly on those as long as one of the major platforms was still available
Now Tracy Diaz, aka Tracy Beanz, one of the first individuals to apmlify QAnon into the mainstream with nearly 500,000 followers, has also been suspended.
Never mind whether that was indeed Ron or not.
The account's already gone.
Twitter's not messing about tonight.
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Videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral on and after election day gave rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal
The message was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment "deep state" had stolen it from him. bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…
A Facebook group called "Stop the Steal" was created on 4 November and became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history, adding more than 300,000 members.
Some of the posts were alarming, speaking of the need for a "civil war" or "revolution". bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…
Iran's Fars news agency, close to the Revolutionary Guards, has published bizarre new details of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh's assassination.
His car, escorted by three cars for protection, leaves Rostamkola, Mazandaran province, for Absard, Damavand in the morning.
One of protection team's cars, which was driving upfront, drives off to check Fakhrizadeh's destination for safety.
Meanwhile, Fakhrizadeh stops the car after hearing the sound of gunshots. He gets out, thinking it's either the sound of him hitting something or an engine issue
A Nissan, parked 150m away, begins firing numerous shots at him via "a machine gun being controlled and operated remotely".
Two bullets hit him on the side and one on the back causing a spinal cord injury.
The lead bodyguard stands in front of him and is hit several times.
Some of the claims in the 200 pages have already been rejected in court cases, while others - such as accusations that voting machines are part of a plot originating under former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez - are not backed up with any credible evidence. bbc.co.uk/news/election-…
But thanks to QAnon supporters, #Kraken has gone viral.
On Twitter, there have been nearly 100K tweets referencing Kraken in the last 48 hours.
On Facebook there have been just over 1M interactions involving the word Kraken since Wednesday evening. bbc.co.uk/news/election-…