2017-12-18, Christopher Mathias, Huffington Post
New rules implemented on
Twitter Monday have led to the suspensions of accounts belonging to prominent neo-Nazis, white nationalists and other far-right extremists.
Jayda Fransen, a leader of Britain First, a virulently anti-
Muslim extremist group in the United Kingdom, got booted off the social media network Monday. Fransen gained notoriety in the United States late last month when President
Donald Trump retweeted her three times.
Other accounts kicked off Twitter include those belonging to
Jared Taylor, editor of the white supremacist magazine
American Renaissance (which also had its verified account closed); Brad Griffin, aka Hunter Wallace, of League of The South, who helped organize a recent White Lives Matter rally in
Tennessee; Jeff Schoep, head of the
National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group;
Vanguard America, the white nationalist group to which
James Alex Fields Jr., who drove his car through protesters in
Charlottesville, belonged; Michael Hill, another leader in
League of the South; the
Traditionalist Worker Party, a white nationalist group whose co-founder was the recent subject of a sympathetic
New York Times profile; Generation Identify, a
European white "identitarian" group; the
American Nazi Party; the English Defense League, an anti-Muslim group; and the Canadian chapter of the
Jewish Defense League, a violent far-right and pro-
Israel group.