Hamas and Hezbollah-affiliated accounts, including Al-Manar and the Quds News Network 1 November 2019 Part of Twitter’s crackdown on “unlawful terrorist organizations and violent extremist groups”, performed after reviewing accounts highlighted by US representatives Josh Gottheimer, Tom Reed, Max Rose, and Brian Fitzpatrick, who accused Twitter of violating the law by doing business with “foreign terrorist organizations”. Impostor 26 November 2018 Permanent Impersonating Russian president Vladimir Putin after a complaint to Twitter from Russian officials. Will Sloan Canadian film critic and podcaster 21 November 2019 Temporary Suspended for tweets in regards to the fictional character Baby Yoda. Briscoe Cain Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives thirteen September 2019 Temporary Suspended for 141 days after refusing to take away a perceived violent menace in opposition to Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke. Saud al-Qahtani (@saudq1978) Former media consultant to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman 20 September 2019 Permanent Banned for violating the corporate’s “platform manipulation” insurance policies. Raúl Castro (@RaulCastroR) Cuban government-affiliated accounts 12 September 2019 Permanent Unspecified breach of rules. Pauline Hanson Australian senator and chief of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation 22 August 2019 Temporary Suspended for “violating guidelines in opposition to abuse and harassment” by posting video advocating the use of violence in opposition to protesters. 200,000 Chinese accounts 19 August 2019 Permanent Believed the accounts have been a part of a Chinese authorities influence campaign focusing on the protest movement in Hong Kong.
Mitch) Political marketing campaign for US Senator Mitch McConnell 7-9 August 2019 Temporary Posting a video that included violent threats in opposition to McConnell. Andile Mngxitama Leader of the Black First Land First 17 December 2018 Temporary Banned for a minimum of seven days after Mngxitama made threats to kill 5 White South Africans for every taxi driver killed in response to comments made by businessman Johann Rupert. Amos Yee (@TheAmosYee) Singaporean blogger 10 December 2018 Permanently banned for supporting pedophilia. 88,000 Saudi-linked accounts 20 December 2019 Permanent State-backed data operations originating in Saudi Arabia that “violated platform manipulation insurance policies”. 70 professional-Michael Bloomberg accounts 21 February 2020 Posting similar messages, which Twitter stated amounted to spam and “platform manipulation”. Twitter reversed its earlier choice to permit a platform for non-military arms of terrorist organizations. Permanently banned for “repeated violations of this coverage” after he created a pretend CNN “racist toddlers” video of two toddlers, one black and one white, running towards one another and hugging, before running away together which Twitter added a “manipulated media” label on the video as racist. Permanently, for “violations of the hateful conduct policy” after she voiced opposition to a college program offering meals for hungry youngsters.
Kelly indicated in comments to other conservatives that he obtained a message saying that his account was “permanently suspended as a result of a number of or repeat violations of the Twitter rules”; nevertheless, Twitter, when contacted by The Hill after Kelly returned, described it as temporary. Dozen accounts related to Venezuela’s government and military eight January 2020 Unknown Unspecified breach of guidelines. The account was reinstated in June 2020 with Twitter saying the suspension was in error. Lindsay Shepherd Free-speech activist 16 July 2019 Permanent; later reinstated Banned for “hateful conduct” following a heated trade with a transgender woman and LGBTQ advocate from Vancouver. Alex (@alx) Turning Point USA ambassador 17 April 2020 Permanent; later reinstated Violating Twitter’s manipulation and spam policy after sharing a meme of Xi Jinping generated through the use of Joe Biden’s avatar generator from his website. Zero Hedge (@zerohedge) Far-right libertarian financial weblog 31 January 2020 Permanent; later reinstated Publishing an article falsely accusing a Wuhan Institute of Virology physician of releasing SARS-CoV-2 as a biological weapon and doxxing stated physician. Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) Resistance Twitter activists 23 May 2019 Permanent; later reinstated Operating pretend accounts.
Carl Benjamin (@CarlUKIP) UKIP accounts 26 April 2019 Violating Twitter’s phrases of service. Non-Satanic bands from the identical surroundings initially used different terms for their own music, such as pagan steel or Viking metal. You don’t see me writing endless rants against sharia legislation for instance, although it does the identical thing to ladies, because it does so without the charade of contriving faux abuse. That is greatest finished by making them understand that the photographs and videos they see on the web may not accurately characterize what intercourse is really like. So intercourse grew to become a central focus of her life. But a number of our issues when it comes to intercourse and intercourse in relationships, is that we merely do not understand each other and our wants. The primary focus of this collective was to fight what they noticed as interlocking methods of oppression and raise consciousness of these techniques. Distributed Denial of Secrets (@DDoSecrets) Activist group Publishing BlueLeaks, 269 gigabytes of inside US regulation enforcement knowledge obtained by the hacker collective Anonymous, for “dissemination of hacked supplies” and “information that might have put people at risk of real-world harm”. It’s solely an issue in certain locations the place exterior elements have driven down the inhabitants.