Twitter suspends more than 50 white nationalist accounts amid recent criticism over its handling of extremist content, a source familiar with the matter says.
, released Tuesday by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, for helping white nationalist groups spread their message and recruit new members.
The report focused on the Identitarian movement, also known as Generation Identity, an ideology based on the notion that people of European heritage are being"replaced" by immigrants. The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism identified 67 Twitter accounts for Generation Identity chapters in 14 countries with nearly 140,000 followers.
“I think this is a very important move Twitter made because it means the major international white nationalist group connected to the violence in Christchurch and many other attacks no longer can use Twitter to propagandize against people of color or, perhaps more importantly, to recruit young people into their movement,” said Heidi Beirich, co-author of the report, referring to the 2019 attack at a mosque in New Zealand in which a far-right extremist killed 51 people at two mosques.
One of the suspended accounts belonged to Martin Sellner, leader of the Identitarian Movement in Austria.“We are the only group really talking about mass immigration and population replacement. The mainstream has no answers to our question: Why should we accept becoming a minority in our own countries?” Sellner said.
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