Monday, September 5, 2016

Twitter Shuts Down ISIS Accounts But Lets White Nationalists Stay

Twitter Shuts Down ISIS Accounts But Lets White Nationalists Stay

September 05, 2016 Twitter Shuts Down ISIS Accounts But Lets White Nationalists Stay , 0 Comments


By Engadget, Sep 02, 2016 

Twitter's previous laissez-faire policy of letting free speech reign on the social network earned ire for their failure to curb hate speech and harassment. But letting terrorist groups freely use it to gather followers and spread their messages was too much. After vowing to ban accounts linked to extremism in mid-2015, they proceeded to shut down over 360,000 of them. But according to a report, Twitter is focusing on countering ISIS-promoting tweets while letting white nationalists run rampant on the service. Which is worrying, since Americans have committed 80 percent of terrorist attacks in the US since September 11th, 2001.
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