Twitter Purges Dozens Of “Alt-Right” Accounts
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Nov 16, 2016
In a move dubbed as “corporate Stalinism” by one of those impacted, overnight Twitter again suspended dozens of accounts associated with the alt-right movement, the same day the social media service said it would crack down on hate speech.
Among those suspended was Richard Spencer, who runs an alt-right think tank and had a verified account on Twitter.
According to USA Today, Twitter on Tuesday removed Spencer’s account, @RichardBSpencer, that of his think tank, the National Policy Institute @npiamerica, and his online magazine @radixjournal.
Twitter has suspended alt-right accounts in the past but never so many at once. In one of the highest-profile bans, Twitter removed the account of Milo Yiannopoulos, an outspoken editor at Breitbart in July. He had engaged in a campaign of abuse in which hundreds of anonymous Twitter accounts bombarded Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones with racist and sexist taunts. Before banning Yiannopoulos, Twitter stripped him of his verified status.
Subsequently Twitter also banned University of Tennessee professor Glenn Reynolds aka “Instapundit”, however it reinstituted his account shortly after.
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