Twitter U-turns over banning white nationalist
Summary: Twitter has reinstated the account of Richard B Spencer, a self-styled white nationalist leader who was suspended from the service in the wake of a much publicised crackdown on hateful conduct. Spencer’s account was initially suspended on 15 November, as part of a sweeping move against leaders of the “alt-right”, a far-right movement which has been resurgent in America since the election of Donald Trump. Within the same day that B Spencer was suspended Twitter had announced new safety tools on its social network, including the ability to more easily report hateful conduct. It had also announced changes in how it trained its moderators to enforce the policies. However, it appears that Twitter suspended Spencer for other reasons. Twitter sent the Guardian a copy of the email the company sent to the white nationalist activist, which suggests that Spencer was banned instead for running multiple accounts with too much overlap. Twitter spokesperson said: “Our rules explicitly prohibit creating multiple accounts with overlapping uses. When we temporarily suspend multiple accounts for this violation, the account owner can designate one account for reinstatement.” But later on, his account was later reactivated and re-verified.
[] the Twitter Rules prohibit violent threats, harassment, hateful conduct and multiple account abuse, and we will take action on accounts violating those policies.”
My opinion: Audiences are very active on social media especially, they comment, like share and re-tweet a lot and that can be seen as an advantage. Twitter is the biggest social media where audience put out their views more than any other sites, this can be from politics, to gossips about people. Being able to spot things is being more easier than ever, people are able to report other twitter accounts for various of reasons and twitter does respond back unlike Facebook.
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