Linked List: July 21, 2020

Tuesday, 21 July 2020

Twitter Finally Cracks Down on ‘QAnon’ Nutters 

Twitter:

We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior 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.

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.

  1. No longer serve content and accounts associated with QAnon in Trends and recommendations
  2. Work to ensure we’re not highlighting this activity in search and conversations
  3. Block URLs associated with QAnon from being shared on Twitter

According to NBC News, this move bans 7,000 accounts and limits 150,000 others.

Your move, Facebook.