Twitter bans Congressional candidate after racist image
https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/12/twitter-bans-congressional-candidate-after-racist-image/
The site has banned Wisconsin Congressional candidate Paul
Nehlen after he posted a racist image that placed the face of
Cheddar Man (a dark-skinned British ancestor) over actress and
soon-to-be-royal Meghan Markle, who's mixed race. The company
said it didn't normally comment on individual accounts, but
said the permanent suspension was due to "repeated violations"
of its terms of service. Nehlen, who's hoping to unseat Paul
Ryan in the 2018 mid-term elections, has a long history of
overtly expressing his racist views. Twitter suspended him for
a week in January over anti-Semitic comments, and he has
regularly promoted white supremacist ideology. In private, he
used direct message groups to coordinate harassment campaigns.
Breitbart supported Nehlen's ultimately unsuccessful run
against Ryan in 2016, but distanced itself from him in
December 2017.
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