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Twitter: Are there more and more account suspensions?

2020-08-27T08:55:49.685Z


THE VERIFICATION - Several influential accounts have been temporarily suspended by the platform in recent months.


THE QUESTION. On Monday August 24, the Twitter account of the Union of National Police Commissioners (SCPN) was briefly suspended due to a message published three weeks earlier. This tweet was sent in response to a user of the social network, who challenged the method used by the gendarme who killed a truck driver following a check in Montauban.

The message in question is reproduced below in an email sent by Twitter to the SCPN.

Screenshot of an email sent by Twitter to the SCPN. SCPN document.

Laurent de Boissieu, journalist at La Croix also saw his account suspended following a message in which he considered that " revealing the real name of an account should be part of the duty of information ".

In August, the writer Bérengère Viennot also saw her Twitter account suspended due to a message published during the fire in the Nantes cathedral: “ Ok it's really sad but still it's beautiful, a cathedral that burns ”.

In a message, the social network reminded him that it is " forbidden to engage in harassment

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Source: lefigaro

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