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.

Politics Reporter

Published Jul. 23 2018 5:45PM EDT

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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...

Will Sommer

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Far Right Freaks Out Because Twitter Is Filtering Their Hate

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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