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8 Jan, 8 tweets, 3 min read
BREAKING: The president has been suspended from Twitter, per Twitter.
Twitter will have a statement momentarily, source tells me.
Twitter has banned President Trump "due to the risk of further incitement of violence."

NEW: Twitter Permanently Bans President Trump

Check here for updates.

nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
Here's one Twitter employee in the company Slack as the Capitol was being stormed on Wednesday, asking what it would take for President Trump's account to be banned.

"I think 'don’t foment coups' is a fairly bright line to draw,'" the employee said.
nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
A Twitter employee told NBC News that “leadership took a beating” at a meeting with employees this morning, who pleaded with executives to delete Trump's account.

“A lot of us are so happy, and so proud to work for a company that did the right thing."
nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
NEW: Twitter will “take action to limit the use” of @POTUS and @WhiteHouse if it becomes clear President Trump is using them to evade his permanent ban.
As predicted, President Trump just tried to evade his ban using @POTUS, so Twitter already got rid of that tweet.

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8 Jan
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.
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6 Jan
New from @BrandyZadrozny + me:

Violent threats ripple through far-right internet forums ahead of protest

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
A lot of people have seen tons of civil war talk on pro-Trump forums over the last few days.

You're probably wondering: Who do these people think they're going to fight?

Let me break it down.

A ton of this stems from a QAnon theory that's falling apart.
nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
For weeks, many people on the pro-Trump and QAnon parts of the web believed Mike Pence would somehow overturn the election tomorrow.

They call this the "Pence Card," and believe it would precipitate instant protests, requiring pro-Trump reinforcements.

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/… Image
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5 Jan
MyPillow guy just linking directly to 8kun at 3:40 in the morning.
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.
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4 Jan
New from me + @BrandyZadrozny + @janestreet:

Trump pushed QAnon and 4chan-created conspiracy theories in Georgia call

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
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.

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
Trump's first conspiracy? A "known scammer" in Atlanta personally rigged the election.

This rumor started on 4chan, then trended on Twitter due to QAnon accounts.

In reality, the poll worker runs a mall kiosk that sells purses. The president is lying.
nbcnews.com/tech/internet/… Image
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29 Dec 20
Once you open up social networks to liability for user speech, they will all look like the homepage for Disney.com.

A Section 230 repeal is an insane thing for Trump to want. It'd leave an immediate regulatory black hole. Nobody who wants this gone understands it.
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.
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22 Dec 20
New from me:

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/…
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