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Nick Fuentes: Praise for Hitler
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"It was fun while it was possible" - this is how Nick Fuentes commented on his renewed ban on Twitter, less than 24 hours after Elon Musk's company had allowed the Holocaust denier back on the platform after a year and a half of banishment.
According to US media, Fuentes used the release of his Twitter account to immediately publish a series of anti-Semitic content.
In a live chat, which is called Spaces on Twitter, he is said to have repeatedly expressed sympathy for Adolf Hitler and said that his return would allow him to "go to war" against Jews.
Fuentes was permanently banned from Twitter in July 2021 for repeatedly violating the platform's rules, a company spokesman said at the time.
YouTube and Twitch had also thrown him off their platforms.
On Telegram, however, he continued to rush.
No explanation from Twitter
It was therefore not surprising that Fuentes continued as before: just a week ago, a video circulated in which Fuentes described Adolf Hitler as a “really cool guy”.
The company has not responded to inquiries from US media about the case.
However, due to the austerity measures following the Musk takeover, it no longer has a press officer.
However, the interim lifting of the ban fits in with previous decisions by Twitter: Since Elon Musk became the new owner and CEO, several prominent right-wing and far-right accounts have been unblocked, including those of Donald Trump, Kanye West, Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate.
However, Trump, who is now getting his Facebook and Instagram accounts back as well, has not yet returned to Twitter, although he still has 87.7 million followers there.
West was banned again after a few weeks.
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