{"id":30523,"date":"2021-01-08T17:17:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T01:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30523"},"modified":"2021-01-08T17:17:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T01:17:04","slug":"twitter-permanently-suspends-michael-flynn-sidney-powell-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30523","title":{"rendered":"Twitter permanently suspends Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell and others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter on Friday permanently suspended the accounts of three major sources of QAnon content: former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and former 8kun administrator Ron Watkins.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made because of \u201crenewed potential for violence surrounding this type of behavior in the coming days,\u201d a spokesperson for the platform told The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The QAnon conspiracy posits baselessly that Trump is working to expose a shadowy cabal of elites in Democratic politics and the media running underground child trafficking rings. Supporters of the theory were heavily involved in Wednesday\u2019s deadly insurrection at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Critics\u00a0say Twitter had plenty of time to act on these high-profile accounts before the violence Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo much unnecessary suffering would have been averted if Twitter did this two years ago instead of today,\u201d Travis View, co-host of the &#8220;QAnonymous&#8221; podcast, posted shortly after the takedowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter on Friday permanently suspended the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30524,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523\/revisions\/30524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}