Twitter suspends group of state election audit accounts claiming "platform manipulation and spam": On the first day of the Democrat Congressional hearings on the January 6 riot, Twitter cracked down on a host of accounts that were reporting details about various forensic audit efforts of election results in a few states. The Audit War Room account was reporting details on the ongoing, Arizona Senate led audit being held in Maricopa County, with nearly 50,000 followers when it was shut down. When reached for comment by BuzzFeed News, Twitter reportedly explained that "the accounts were permanently suspended for violating the Twitter rules on platform manipulation and spam." This is typically a reference to multiple accounts being run by one person and/or accounts using artificial means to boost followers, though not always.