Twitter Suspends Alt-Right Accounts, Promises Tools To Fight Abuse

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Twitter suspended several users from the alt-right movement Tuesday, the same day the social media platform pledged to combat hate speech.

USA Today reported that several prominent leaders in the alt-right community, which brings together white nationalists, anti-Semites and misogynists, have been banned from the site. Most notably among them were Richard Spencer, who Mother Jones called the movement's "self-styled prophet," his think tank, the National Policy Institute, and his online magazine, Radix Journal.

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Twitter also removed the accounts of Paul Town, Pax Dickinson, Ricky Vaughn, John Rivers, and others, according to USA Today.

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WIRED also reported Tuesday that Twitter users would soon be able to filter out certain keywords, phrases, user names and hashtags on the site, a tool it said would help fight abuse and harassment.

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Whatever will President Pu**ygrabber and Junior do without their fascist buds on Twitter? Oh, no worries, they will be appointed to the White House. /sarcasm off.