Twitter has suspended more than 70,000 accounts linked to the far-right QAnon movement.
QAnon is a conspiracy movement that claims that President Donald Trump is waging a war against Satan-worshipping pedophiles in politics, business and the media. Supporters have been involved in attacks on the US Capitol building.
Twitter has deleted accounts that "share harmful QAnon-related content at scale."
"We have been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on actions that have the potential to cause harm in the digital (online) space," Twitter said in a recent blog post.
"Given the violent events in Washington and the increased risk of harm, we began permanently suspending thousands of accounts that were primarily dedicated to distributing QAnon content."
Twitter said there were "many cases where a single individual was spreading such conspiracies through multiple accounts."
The accounts were primarily dedicated to spreading this conspiracy theory across the platform, he added.
President Trump - seen as a hero by the movement - has stopped short of endorsing the conspiracy theory but has described QAnon activists as "people who love our country."
In 2019, the FBI raised concerns that "conspiracy theories pushed by domestic extremists" and designed by QAnon were a potential threat to national security.
(BBC article)