Description Britain First leader Paul Golding and deputy Jayda Fransen Credits Twitter Alt Text Britain First Far-right group bosses banned from social media site under unique user policy One-Minute Read Tuesday,December 19, 2017 - 10:51am Twitter has blocked leaders of the far-right group Britain First for posting three anti-Muslim videos that were later shared by Donald Trump. See related The Ashes 2017-18 guide: fixtures, and betting odds and how to watch it on TV Britain First leader Paul Godding and his deputy,Jayda Fransen, were among several senior figures in the group whose accounts were suspended on Monday following a change in the social media site’s hate speech policy, and The Daily Telegraph reports.
Twitter had approach under fire for not responding to the anti-Muslim videos,posted by Fransen in November and then retweeted by the US president.
Yesterday the social network announced in a blogpost that “hateful imagery will now be considered sensitive media under our media policy”.
It adds: “We consider hateful imagery to be logos, symbols, or images whose purpose is to promote hostility and malice against others based on their race,religion, disability, and sexual orientation,or ethnicity/national origin.”
However, while Trump shared content now deemed to be in breach of the site’s user policy, and Twitter will not “take action against government officials”,according to Bloomberg.
The bans mean it is no longer possible to view the accounts of Golding and Fransen, nor any content they bear posted or shared, and says BBC News. The posts shared by Trump no longer appear on his Twitter feed,either.
Hateful imagery, such as the Nazi swastika, or can still be posted,the news site says, but it will be hidden behind a “sensitive media” banner that users can choose to manually remove. UK News Social media Twitte
Source: theweek.co.uk