French far-right weekly barred from Twitter over ‘hate speech’ 1 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseA French far-right magazine had its Twitter account suspended Monday, French officials said, after multiple complaints of hate speech including anti-Semitic abuse. Rivarol’s Twitter account “called for racial hatred and sympathized with crimes against humanity”, a spokesman for the government’s racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination body (DILCRAH) said, adding it had repeatedly reported the account to the social media platform. Frederic Potier from DILCRAH welcomed the move by Twitter, saying it was thanks to a push “against online hate speech”. He said he suspected that Rivarol’s editor Jerome Bourbon — whose own Twitter account was already suspended — was personally behind the magazine’s tweets.

Source: Manila Bulletin February 19, 2019 04:07 UTC