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Twitter completely suspends the white nationalist of David Duke
Twitter has suspended the account of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke for repeated breaches of the Twitter Standards on Hateful Behavior, a spokeswoman confirmed to The Verge on Friday. This compliance action is in accordance with our newly revised guidelines on dangerous ties.
In September 2009, Duke joined Facebook, an archived version of his profile reveals, and his website has more than 53,000 followers.
YouTube blocked a number of white nationalist outlets last month, including Duke's, for violating its hate speech policies. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which considers Duke a neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier, claims Duke developed an worldwide image as the American face of white nationalism and pseudo-academic anti-Semitism. The Anti-Defamation League says Duke has been involved in the white supremacy movement for decades.
Duke was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1989 after seeking to rebrand himself as a born-again Christian. He served one term and then conducted failed bids for the U.S. Senate and Louisiana governor. His criminal record includes serving 15 months in federal jail in 2002 on counts of electronic mail and tax evasion.
Twitter's Hateful Behavior Policy bans the encouragement of abuse against — or threats of assault against — people on the grounds of groups such as religious identity, race , and ethnicity. The organization says it is taking steps in accordance with its newly revised URL policy and blocking connections.
Since coming under heavy scrutiny, Twitter has renounced hate speech and "hateful conduct" in the past several months, blocked British columnist Katie Hopkins in January, removed 7,000 QAnon-related accounts last week, and labelled many inflammatory tweets from President Trump with fact-check stickers.
