American Tennys Sandgren, one of the surprises of the men’s Australian Open quarter-finals, deleted nearly all of his tweets as a way to “move forward” after his controversial social media activity came under scrutiny this week. Some of his controversial tweets and links forced him on Monday to address questions on whether he supported right-wing ideas. “I put a program on that just deletes tweets,” Sandgren said in an ESPN interview that aired Tuesday morning — by then, all of his tweets since 2016 had been deleted. “Definitely not alt-right content interesting. “I’m definitely open and receptive to information.

Source: thestar January 23, 2018 21:22 UTC