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Far Right Freaks Out Because Twitter Is Filtering Their Hate

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The social giant has subtly made it harder to find some of its most controversial accounts and, naturally, some of Twitter‘s biggest trolls are unhappy about it.

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New changes on Twitter have made it harder to find some of the site’s most controversial far-right users.

Prominent right-wing Twitter accounts, including a writer for conspiracy theorist hub InfoWars and white-nationalist figures like Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler, appear to have been hit with a number of new measures...

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