Twitter has suspended 70,000 accounts linked to the far-right conspiracy movement QAnon in light of the violence at the US Capitol last week.
The social media platform said it began permanently deleting accounts that had shared QAnon content on Friday, following riots in Washington DC on Wednesday.
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It found several cases where one person was operating multiple accounts in order to 'share harmful QAnon-associated content at scale' and 'propagate this conspiracy theory' through Twitter.
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'Since Friday, more than 70,000 accounts have been suspended as a result of our efforts, with many instances of a single individual operating numerous accounts,' a spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday.
QAnon is a right-wing conspiracy movement that claims President Donald Trump is fighting against a global paedophile ring that includes members of the US Democratic Party.
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Supporters believe that someone inside the group - known as Q - is posting cryptic messages for them online to prepare them to overthrow the supposed evil cabal.
Many of those who stormed and looted Capitol buildings in a bid to stop Congress certifying Joe Biden's election victory are advocates of QAnon.
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Mr Trump has been known to endorse the group, previously describing them as 'people who love our country'.
Twitter says it is 'aggressively deploying' a combination of technology and human intervention to weed out harmful content surrounding the US election.
It says it will not recommend any account that has tweeted or retweeted QAnon messaging and nothing that breaks its rules can appear in its trending lists.
From Tuesday, people will not be able to retweet, like or reply to any posts that breach its 'civic integrity policy'.
But they will be able to quote tweet them, to offer a different perspective or to put them into context, the spokesperson added.
Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have suspended Mr Trump's accounts after he was accused of inciting the violence that broke out in Washington last week.
While he can no longer tweet himself, his deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino posted on his behalf last week: 'Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th.
'I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it's only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!'
He also used the official POTUS account to accuse the platform of 'banning free speech' over the weekend.
Twitter has reacted with horror to the idea of having baked beans on Weetabix for breakfast.
After the cereal firm posted a tweet on Tuesday showing two of the cereal biscuits smothered in a well-known brand of beans with the caption: 'Why should bread have all the fun when there's Weetabix?, the social media platform's users were quick to spit it out.
Sussex Police said 'nothing warrants this' while West Yorkshire Police warned: 'Even though this is criminal, please don't ring us to report it.'
The NHS official account joked it should 'come with a health warning'.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institute was also having a gas, saying 'our volunteers are prepared to brave all sorts of windy conditions. But not this'.
This is not the 🇺🇸🇬🇧 collaboration we were hoping for.... https://t.co/HNoQJK9lMy
— U.S. Embassy London (@USAinUK) February 9, 2021But plenty were happy to chew over the idea, as the tweet was shared, replied to and liked more than 150,000 times combined, and even set off a minor international incident.
The US Embassy tweeted that the pairing was 'not the [US-UK] collaboration we were hoping for'.
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To which the British embassy responded with 'Strong opinion from the nation that makes tea in a microwave', referencing a popular mother-and-daughter team which posts TikTok videos showing Americans how to cook British dishes.
The US Embassy then issued a reply channelling the viral Handforth Parish Council Zoom call.
We’ve checked the Standing Orders.... and they say no beans on Weetabix. Read them and understand them @UKinUSA! 😉
— U.S. Embassy London (@USAinUK) February 9, 2021Israel's official account saw the funny side, too, suggesting all Middle Eastern nations would agree the combination was a bad idea while promoting a regional delicacy, humous, as an upgrade to beans.
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But for Weetabix, it's all been gravy, as marketing director Francesca Theokli admitted, it was just a little 'light relief'.