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Twitter has revealed that it has suspended the accounts of Paul Golding, Britain First's leader, and Jayda Fransen, his deputy, two leaders of a British far-right party following revision of its rules on hate speech.

The party's official Twitter page has also suffered the same fate.

As a result three of Ms Fransen's posts that President Trump retweeted have disappeared from his feed.

The messages had featured anti-Muslim videos and proved highly controversial when the American leader shared them in November.

The spokesman of British Prime Minister Theresa May has frowned on the matter saying "it was actually wrong for the president to have done such."

Ms Fransen and Mr Golding were arrested earlier in the week over separate behaviour relating to Northern Ireland.

Twitter announced in October that it intends to take tougher stroke on hate symbols as well as accounts that involve in posting of messages that glorify or condoned violence on its site.

The company said that the accounts of those that express any affiliation with groups that use or celebrate violence to achieve their goals will be permanently suspended, adding that such move would reduce the amount of abusive behaviour and hateful conduct on the network.

Twitter revealed that any account's profile information that contain racist or sexist tropes, violent threat, epithets, incites fear, reduces people to less than human, will be permanently suspended.

 

 

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