Arizona’s official audit account on July 27
Twitter has permanently suspended 8 accounts propagating former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election and pushed partisan “audits” to locate evidence of the lies, with the platform’s most recent suspensions targeting audits.
Among those who suspended the official Twitter account of the ongoing Republican-led audit in Arizona, which is overseen through a businessman who has spread false conspiracy theories, he added in a recent pro-Trump film: The Audit of Arizona, a popular tourist destination for conservative lawmakers across the country hoping to emulate him in their home states. , adding several that were in Washington, D. C. , on January 6. The official audit account had released incorrect information about the 2020 elections.
In addition, a streetcar account known as @AuditWarRoom, which had also spread misinformation and attacked officials critical of Arizona’s audit and the newscasts that covered it, was suspended. Room’s accounts “request audits in Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania, as well as a separate express account for Arizona, all also suspended through the social media platform. “
In a BuzzFeed News, Twitter said the accounts had been permanently suspended for violating Twitter’s regulations on platform manipulation and spam. The company did not specify when the suspensions went into effect, but it appears this happened on Tuesday afternoon. The account, which was still online at the time of publication, published an article about the suspension at 1:30 p. m. and then directed fans to its accounts on Telegram and Gettr, two social media sites favored by the far right. Instagram did not respond promptly to a request for comment on whether the Audit War Room account, which captures its own tweets, violates its regulations.
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Twitter had in the past suspended the account of Voices and Votes, a black cash organization founded through NAO newscasts Christina Bobb and Chanel Rion to increase the budget for Arizona’s audit, even as Bobb reported on the network’s audit. the account was also permanent and was the result of a violation of its regulations on platform manipulation and spam.
The online page Voices and Votes says it continues to increase the budget for audits in Arizona, as well as efforts to publish similar audits in other Michigans, Wisconsin, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Bob did not respond to a request for comment on the suspension of the law. The Voices and Votes account, voices and votes’ Instagram account and Bobb’s private Twitter account, where he also spread false data about the election, are still online. Instagram also did not respond promptly to a request related to the Voices and Votes account. .
Audit accounts are just one of the means through which pro-Trump figures have continued to push the lie that the election was stolen from him. Arizona’s audit and efforts to recreate it in other states are central scenarios in OAN and other far-right media, he added. Gateway Pundit and former Trump strategist Steve Bannon’s podcast. The former president praises the audit efforts in emailed statements to the media, and that was the focus of his rally in Arizona last weekend.
Meanwhile, election officials across the country are forced to fight an avalanche of misinformation and blame social media, adding Twitter, for spreading it and making their paintings more difficult, according to a Brennan Center survey of election officials released last month. State-owned Katie Hobbs, whose workplace was attacked through the official audit account, has faced death threats when Republican Gov. Doug Ducey ordered her protected in May and, according to the Brennan Center’s investigation, isn’t the only election official threatened.
This story was updated with a Twitter one.