Twitter Permanently Suspends Account Of Milo Yiannopoulos After Leslie Jones Abuse
Writer Milo Yiannopoulos has been banned from the site after he was accused of leading a harassment campaign against the ‘Ghostbusters’ star.
Twitter has permanently banned right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos days after actress Leslie Jones revealed the extend of the racist abuse she’d been receiving on the social media site. Yiannopoulos, a writer for Breitbart, had been accused of inciting his followers to send the actress racist and abusive messages.
Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones revealed the abuse she’d suffered on Twitter earlier this week.
In a statement to Buzzfeed, a spokesperson for Twitter said: “People should be able to express diverse opinions and beliefs on Twitter. But no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online, and our rules prohibit inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others.”
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