Far right instigator Katie Hopkins is permanently banned from Twitter for violating the company's hateful conduct policy.
Katie Hopkins, despicable racist and all-around terrible human, has been permanently banned from Twitter. One of her last tweets: complaining about food-insecure children being fed during a pandemic. Far-right commentator Katie Hopkins has been suspended from Twitter following calls for the social network to carry out a “full review” of her account. Campaigners had accused her of. Controversial commentator Katie Hopkins has had her Twitter account suspended for violating its anti-hate policy. The social media giant said the former Apprentice contestant had been temporarily. A row has broken out over Twitter's decision to ban Katie Hopkins for 'hateful conduct' as critics accused the social media giant of curbing free speech. The former Apprentice star turned.
Hopkins, who has been retweeted by Donald Trump several times, is known for her extreme views on immigration and other social issues. She once referred to refugees fleeing war as 'cockroaches.' In 2017, Hopkins was fired from a radio show for calling for a 'final solution' for Muslims living in the United Kingdom after a terrorist attack in Manchester.
She was temporarily suspended in January. Twitter affirmed that as of Friday, she was banned from the platform permanently in a statement to CNN.
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'Keeping Twitter safe is a top priority for us — abuse and hateful conduct have no place on our service and we will continue to take down action when our Rules are broken,' Twitter stated. 'In this case, the account has been permanently suspended for violations of our Hateful Conduct policy.'
While the company wouldn't share the exact tweets that resulted in Hopkins' ban, its Hateful Conduct policy states that users 'may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.'
Hopkins had roughly a million followers before her ban, BBC reports.
Twitter permanently blacklisted the account of Katie Hopkins, a British conservative commentator who had over 1 million followers prior to her ban. The company claims the deverification of her account and the subsequent ban are based on “hateful conduct.”
A Twitter spokeswoman confirmed that Hopkins has been permanently banned in an email to Breitbart News, accusing her of “hateful conduct.”
“Keeping Twitter safe is a top priority for us – abuse and hateful conduct have no place on our service and we will continue to take action when our Rules are broken,” said the spokeswoman. “In this case, the account has been permanently suspended for violations of our Hateful Conduct policy.”
After unverifying Katie Hopkins this morning, Twitter has now suspended her.
Katie had 1 million followers. Is anyone safe?
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Hopkins previously faced a temporary suspension from the social media platform following pressure on Twitter from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the same far-left British organization that assisted NBC’s recent hitpiece against The Federalist and ZeroHedge, which resulted in Google pulling ad revenue from the latter and threatening the former with the same.
The British nonprofit’s purpose appears to be to smear conservative and right-wing news sources. As previously reported:
Google took action after it was contacted by agenda-driven journalists at NBC, who presented the company with research from a leftist nonprofit, the Center for Countering Digital Hate, that smears a number of conservative websites including Breitbart News, and calls on digital advertisers to financially blacklist them.
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The nonprofit falsely claims that Breitbart News promoted the Obama “birther” theory, citing as “evidence” a Breitbart story that explicitly rejects the theory. As purported evidence of Breitbart’s “hate,” the nonprofit also links to a recent piece recommending Americans buy guns and ammunition to protect themselves amid violent riots.
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It is currently unclear if CCDH played any role in the permanent blacklisting of Hopkins’ account.
Twitter’s justification for the previous, temporary suspension of Hopkins’ account was the same as the one it used for the current ban: “violating the site’s hateful-conduct policy which bans the promotion of violence or inciting harm on the basis of race, religion, national origin or gender identity.”
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Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.