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In recent weeks, Twitter has eliminated 7,000 social network accounts belonging to members of the group known as QAnon, a movement linked to the American extreme right (known as alt-right) that claims to possess information that involves various actors, celebrities and Democratic party politicians in an extensive global pedophile network that, furthermore, would be trying to undermine the efforts of the Donald Trump administration in Washington.

Twitter also ensures that it has information on 150,000 other accounts that are linked to this movement or actively participate in the amplification of their messages. Those accounts, from now on, will have a limited scope.

They will be able to continue posting messages to the social network, but links to content related to the QAnon conspiracy theories will not be active and their words will not appear in Twitter trends or search results.

Twitter thus joins the efforts of other social networks, such as Facebook, Reddit or YouTube, which have tried in recent months to stem the growing wave of disinformation that has begun to circulate as several factors converge: the death of the millionaire Jeffrey Epstein, Convicted for years of abusing various underage women and facilitating sexual encounters with several celebrities, the arrest of his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and the upcoming US presidential elections.

QAnon began to gain prominence four years ago, during the presidential campaign that pitted Donald Trump against HiIllary Clinton. An anonymous user on the 4Chan forums, calling himself Q (referring to one of the government's levels of classified information), claimed to have access to an investigation involving several members of the Democratic Party in a pedophile network that would soon be dismantled in a major public operation.

An evolution of that initial theory, dubbed Pizzagate, almost ended in tragedy shortly after the election. A participant in forums frequented by QAnon planted himself in a pizzeria in Washington with an assault rifle, believing it to be a cover for a child trafficking network run by ex-White House chief of staff and political consultant John Podesta.

Four years later, none of those initial theories has proven true, but QAnon has mutated during that time into an amalgam of theories and conjectures that are increasingly absurd but that see in each event one more clue to a convoluted puzzle, one in which a " deep state "that pulls the strings in Washington - financed by magnate George Soros among others - tries to combat the Trump administration.

The group, which is informally organized on various social networks, has been under active surveillance by the FBI for two years, considering that it may be a source of future terrorist actions. Several experts also see some of the ingredients common to religious sects, such as the use of certain common symbols.

QAnon's profile, however, is becoming more public, as some politicians have begun to consider as plausible some of the theories that emerged in the group, at least facing the public and as a way to gain attention from a specific profile of voters In bell. It has also helped that Trump himself has sometimes retweeted messages from some of his members.

Several of the candidates for the congress of the next electoral cycle have considered themselves related or at least shown some consideration for some of the group's theories, sometimes even sharing some of the symbols that are frequently seen in the darkest and most remote forums of the net.

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