A few days ahead of the white nationalist “Unite the Right 2” rally in D.C. — which ended up featuring more Antifa members than Alt-Righters — Twitter suspended multiple accounts linked to the Proud Boys, a right-wing group founded by Gavin McInnes. The rationale for suspending the accounts, Twitter suggested in a statement, is that McInnes and his Proud Boys are a “violent extremist group.”
“We can confirm that these accounts have been suspended from Twitter and Periscope for violating our policy prohibiting violent extremist groups,” a Twitter spokesperson told BuzzFeed in a statement.
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