But Zero Hedge’s founder, who uses the pseudonym Tyler Durden, wrote in a Friday afternoon post that he received a notice from Twitter saying he violated the platform’s rules against abuse and targeted harassment. AD“It is news to us that this website has (ever) ‘engaged in the targeted harassment of someone,' ” Durden wrote. Experts have rejected the idea that the virus could be man-made or the product of biological weapons research. ADZero Hedge launched in 2009, mostly featuring news and commentary about financial markets from a libertarian perspective. In November, Zero Hedge erroneously reported that the head of Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the current impeachment trial, had been indicted by Ukraine’s prosecutor general.

Source: Washington Post February 01, 2020 18:09 UTC