X, formerly Twitter, may suspend accounts, temporarily or permanently, from their social networking service. Suspensions of high-profile accounts often attract media attention,[1] and X's use of suspensions has been controversial.
Policy
Users who are suspended from Twitter, based on alleged violations of Twitter's terms of service, are usually not informed which of their tweets were the cause. They are told only that their accounts will not be restored, and they are told which of Twitter's rules the company claims were violated.[2] In addition to community guideline policy decisions, the Twitter DMCA-detection system and spam-detection system are sometimes manipulated or abused by groups of users attempting to force a user's suspension.[3]
Some commentators, such as technology entrepreneur Declan McCullagh and law professor Glenn Reynolds, have criticized Twitter's suspension and ban policies as overreaches of power.[4][5]
History
Between 2014 and 2016, Twitter suspensions were frequently linked to ISIL-related accounts. A "Twitter suspension campaign" began in earnest in 2015, and on one day, 4 April 2015, some 10,000 accounts were suspended.[6] Twitter repeatedly shut down accounts that spread ISIL material, but new ones popped up quickly and were advertised with their old Twitter handle; Twitter in return blocked those in what was called an ongoing game of Whac-A-Mole. By August 2014, Twitter had suspended a dozen official ISIL accounts,[7] and between September and December 2014 it suspended at least 1000 accounts promoting ISIL.[8] Twitter said that between mid-2015 and February 2016 it had suspended 125,000 accounts associated with ISIL and related organizations,[8] and by August 2016 had suspended some 360,000 accounts for being associated with terrorism (not all these were ISIL-related).[7]
Twitter suspended multiple parody accounts that satirized Russian politics in May 2016, sparking protests and raising questions about where the company stands on freedom of speech.[13] Following public outcry, Twitter restored the accounts the next day without explaining why the accounts had been suspended.[14] The same day, Twitter, along with Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, jointly agreed to a European Union code of conduct obligating them to review "[the] majority of valid notifications for removal of illegal hate speech" posted on their services within 24 hours.[15] In August 2016, Twitter stated that it had banned 235,000 accounts over the past six months, bringing the overall number of suspended accounts to 360,000 accounts in the past year, for violating policies banning use of the platform to promote extremism.[16]
On 10 May 2019, Twitter announced that they suspended 166,513 accounts for promoting terrorism in the July–December 2018 period, stating there was a steady decrease in terrorist groups trying to use the platform owing to its "zero-tolerance policy enforcement". According to Vijaya Gadde, Legal, Policy and Trust and Safety Lead at Twitter, there was a reduction of 19% terror-related tweets from the previous reporting period (January–June 2018).[17][18][19][20][21]
In September 2017, Twitter responded to calls[22] to suspend U.S. PresidentDonald Trump's account, clarifying that they will not do so as they consider his tweets to be "newsworthy".[23]
In October 2017, Twitter posted a calendar of upcoming changes related to enforcement. Among other things, Twitter promised to provide "a better experience for suspension appeals", including a detailed description to the user of how a suspended account violated the rules.[24]
In November 2017, Twitter gave a deadline of 18 December to comply with their new policy, adding: "You also may not affiliate with organizations that—whether by their own statements or activity both on and off the platform—use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes".[25] On 18 December, the accounts of several high-profile organizations were suspended.[26]
Following Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter in October 2022, it was reported that the platform was planning to end the use of permanent suspensions.[27] In November 2022, Musk stated that accounts that engage in impersonation without a "clear" parody label would be permanently suspended without warning.[28]
Many anti-fascist activists were purged from Twitter in November 2022 after Musk outsourced content moderation decisions to the platform's users, notably inviting right-wing journalist Andy Ngo to report anti-fascist accounts directly to him. Among those suspended were a group that provides armed security to LGBT events, accounts parodying Elon Musk, and a Palestinian news outlet known for criticizing the Israeli military.[29][30][31]
Incidents
Rose McGowan
In October 2017, actress Rose McGowan said that Twitter had suspended her account for 12 hours after she repeatedly tweeted about former film studio executive Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct toward her and others. Twitter explained that McGowan's account had violated its privacy policy because one of her tweets included a private phone number. According to The New York Times, "Many Twitter users expressed outrage over Ms. McGowan's account being locked". After the tweet was removed, her account was unlocked several hours before the 12-hour ban was set to expire. A Twitter representative stated, "We will be clearer about these policies and decisions in the future".[32][33] Later that day, software engineer Kelly Ellis, using the hashtag #WomenBoycottTwitter, urged women to shun Twitter for 24 hours, beginning at midnight, in solidarity with McGowan and with "all the victims of hate and harassment Twitter fails to support". Several activists, celebrities, and journalists joined the boycott.[34] Others criticized the level of organization and the fact that it was only 24 hours.[35]
2018 fake followers purge
On 11 July 2018, The New York Times reported that Twitter would begin to delete fake follower accounts to increase the authenticity of the platform.[36][37]
U.S. President Donald Trump said that social networks such as Twitter were "totally discriminating" against Republican Party and conservative users.[42] Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey clarified that the reduction in the followers count was part of the platform's efforts to cut down on spamming and bot accounts.[37][41] Dorsey's own account lost about 230,000 followers in the purge.[40]
On 27 July 2018, Twitter's stock went down by 20.5% (equivalent to $6 billion).[38] The user base declined to 325 million, down from 326 million.[43]
On 7 January 2021, Twitter temporarily locked the account of U.S. PresidentDonald Trump after multiple controversies, including his use of the platform to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election and to incite the January 6 United States Capitol attack. On 8 January, Twitter permanently suspended Trump's account, citing his violation of Twitter's Glorification of Violence guidelines.[44][45] Twitter also suspended or heavily moderated accounts that enabled Trump to circumvent his ban, including the official @POTUS handle.[46][47] Trump congratulated Nigeria for blocking Twitter, and wrote that he had hosted Zuckerberg for dinner in White House.[48][49][50] Twitter was criticized for banning Trump but deleting Ali Khamenei tweets.[51][52] Twitter also suspended the "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump" (@DJTDesk) account, citing ban evasion as the reason.[53][54][55][56]
On 13 January 2021, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey tweeted about Trump's Twitter ban,[57] fearing that although the ban was the correct decision for Twitter as a company, Twitter's actions "set a precedent I feel is dangerous: the power an individual or corporation has over a part of the global public conversation". In 2022, Dorsey has continued voicing concern over Twitter's role in internet centralization with his tweet on 2 March, stating "centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet. I realize I'm partially to blame, and regret it".[58] Internet centralization continues to be a riveting conversation surrounding Twitter and its banning policies.[59]
On 19 November 2022, Trump's account was reinstated by Elon Musk.[60] As late as August 2024, Trump had only used his Twitter account once in (August 2023 - posting about his mugshot) since its reinstatement, but had otherwise focused on making posts to his Truth Social social media platform.[61][62] In August 2024, Trump began posting more frequently on his account.[63][64]
On 15 December 2022, a number of journalists, including journalists from The New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, and Voice of America had their accounts suspended. Musk claimed that the accounts had received a seven-day suspension for violating the platforms "doxxing" policy by sharing his "exact real-time location", with him comparing it to "assassination coordinates". However, it was reported that none of the suspended journalists had actually shared Musk's precise real-time location on their accounts.[66][67]
The suspensions were condemned by the United Nations, while the European Union threatened sanctions against Twitter under the EU's Digital Services Act that is scheduled to take effect in 2023 and requires social media companies to "respect media freedom and fundamental rights".[68] A number of American Democratic Party lawmakers also criticized the bans.[69]
Reporters Without Borders warned that if the suspensions were in retaliation for the journalists' work on Musk, they would be a "serious violation of the journalists' right to report the news without fear of reprisal".[70][71]
Most of the suspensions were lifted the next day, on 16 December 2022, after Musk put the decision on whether to reinstate the suspended accounts through an informal poll where 58.7% of voters chose lifting the suspensions immediately over 41.3% who voted to have the suspensions be lifted after 7 more days.[72][73] The unbanned accounts remained restricted from posting until they removed the tweets that were claimed to be in violation of Twitter rules. Some of the journalists later appealed the decision, arguing their tweets were not in violation.[74]
Suspended days after fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir filed a defamation suit against Love over tweets made on 17 March 2009. It was the first high-profile defamation trial over a celebrity's comments on Twitter. Love now uses a different account (@Courtney).[76][77][78]
Publishing the company email address of NBC executive Gary Zenkel during the 2012 Summer Olympics, for which NBC and Twitter were in a partnership. Twitter initially encouraged NBC to file a complaint, then later apologized and unsuspended Adams after NBC withdrew its complaint.[83]
BILL NYE THO (@Bill_Nye_tho)
Parody account
19 September 2012
Permanent; later reinstated
Impersonating a public figure. His account was reinstated in October 2013.[82]
Big Bird (@FiredBigBird)
Parody account
3–4 October 2012
Temporary
After Mitt Romney threatened to cut PBS funding, this account popped up posting doctored images of Big Bird in the unemployment line and begging. The account was suspended twice with the creator saying it might have been automated.[84]
Unspecified but likely connected to Hamas's classification in the US and elsewhere as a terrorist organization. The organization continued to create new accounts, which were later also suspended. Further purges of Hamas accounts took place in 2016 and 2019.[94][95][96]
Violating Twitter's rules "around participating in targeted abuse" by tweeting the day before about "taking out" civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson, which Mckesson perceived as "a serious threat". Temporarily suspended three times prior.[100][101]
Pled guilty to possessing child pornography, soliciting minors for sex via the internet, and performing sex acts on minors, under a plea deal which sought to spare him a life sentence. Later sentenced to spend between 13 and 15.5 years in prison[103][104]
Twitter attempted to remove all official accounts of the terrorist organization, but the organization swiftly opened new accounts. More accounts were suspended in 2019.[95][96]
Making racist and homophobic posts towards singer Zayn Malik.[78][108] Also made at least six other Twitter accounts over succeeding years, with bans in 2018,[109] 2019, and 2020,[110] before she was IP banned from the platform. She rejoined under the handle @Azealiaishere in April 2022[111] but this account was suspended two months later.[112]
Including accounts of National Policy Institute, Radix Journal, Ricky Vaughn, John Rivers, and others; banned for violating Twitter's policy prohibiting users from "inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others".[118][120]
Temporarily suspended on 4 March 2016, possibly for racist and violent behavior.[121] Permanently for making Neo-Nazi posts, including a photo of herself and other attendees rendering a Nazi salute at an event of the white nationalist National Policy Institute.[122]
Permanently suspended for a transphobic comment against The A.V. Club writer Katie Rife. Cumia then made several accounts to get around the initial ban, which were subsequently permanently suspended as well.[137]
Banned for harassment of CNN journalists.[149] Stone later threatened legal action against Twitter.[150] The account was later reinstated on 7 December 2022.[151]
Account locked after posting business address of online harasser who posted threats and racist slurs; restored after he deleted the tweet. The account of the harasser, extremist attorney Jason Lee Van Dyke, was suspended.[159]
Repeated and/or non-consensual slurs, epithets, racist and sexist tropes, or other content that degrades someone, and posting a photoshopped image of Laura Loomer inside a gas chamber.[160] After five years, Baked Alaska's account was reinstated on 10 December 2022.
Contravention of new rule about people 'that affiliate with organizations that use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes'.[163] The organization had posted videos with false and misleading captions attributing violence to Muslims, which were re-tweeted by Donald Trump.[164]
Barriss' account was suspended after the Los Angeles police arrested him as the suspected "swatter" who later pled guilty to placing a fake 911 call that led a police officer to kill an innocent man in Wichita, Kansas.[167]
Suspended for three posts that appeared to encourage violence against the media, including one tweet stating: "Punch them in the nose & MAKE THEM TASTE THEIR OWN BLOOD". Suspension lifted after Clarke deleted the posts.[168][169]
Suspended for 12 hours for "offensive behavior" after tweeting, regarding Ahed Tamimi, a 17-year-old Palestinian serving an eight-month jail sentence for a videotaped assault of an Israeli soldier: "In my opinion, she should have gotten a bullet, at least in the kneecap".[178][179]
Unknown; possibly due to either a coordinated campaign by his critics or for making a flippant comment about wanting to kill someone over an argument about Lawson products.[180]
Banned in error after tweeting the content of several Sarah Jeong's controversial tweets about white people, and changing races and religions mentioned in the tweets.[189]
Hateful conduct.[192] Possibly for calling Candace Owens a "coon". Swan's account was reinstated on 4 September 2018, which he attributed to thousands of his followers calling for Twitter to lift the suspension.[193]
Posting "content that was threatening and/or promoting violence" by jokingly tweeting, "Oi @ScottMorrisonMP I'm gonna chop your fucking head off".[194][195] Lucas now uses a new account.
Alex Jones was first suspended for a week on 14 August 2018 for violating policy on "inciting violence",[197] and was later banned on 6 September for violating policy on "abusive behaviour".[198] Both accounts were later reinstated on December 9, 2023.[199]
Posting hoax political meme on 20 July 2018, specifically a fake message, supposedly from Democrats, that urged men not to vote in the midterm elections. Woods received an email from Twitter stating that the tweet had "the potential to be misleading in a way that could impact an election". Woods refused to delete the tweet himself.[201] He was allowed to return in October 2018.[202]
After the mail bombing attempts against Donald Trump critics and Democratic Party politicians, Sayoc's profiles were found to have posted far-right political conspiracy theories, graphic images and specific threats.[206]
Kelly indicated in comments to other conservatives that he received a message saying that his account was "permanently suspended due to multiple or repeat violations of the Twitter rules"; however, Twitter, when contacted by The Hill after Kelly returned, described it as temporary.[211]
@putinRF_eng
Impostor
26 November 2018
Permanent
Impersonating Russian president Vladimir Putin after a complaint to Twitter from Russian officials.[212]
Banned for a minimum of seven days after Mngxitama made threats to kill 5 White South Africans for every taxi driver killed in response to comments made by businessman Johann Rupert.[214]
2019
Individual/account
Description
Date
Duration
Reason for suspension
Stephanie Sargnagel
Austrian author and artist
31 January 2019
Permanent; later reinstated
Suspended for posting tweet that translates[citation needed] to: 'Austria, you stupid son of a bitch, I am going to kill you'.[215]
Tweeting, "If gay people are a mistake, they're a mistake I've made hundreds of millions of times, which proves I'm incompetent and shouldn't be relied upon for anything".[229]
Part of Twitter's crackdown on "illegal terrorist organizations and violent extremist groups", conducted after reviewing accounts highlighted by US representativesJosh Gottheimer, Tom Reed, Max Rose, and Brian Fitzpatrick, who accused Twitter of violating the law by doing business with "foreign terrorist organizations". Twitter reversed its previous decision to allow a platform for non-military arms of terrorist organizations.[96][245][246]
Will Sloan
Canadian film critic and podcaster
21 November 2019
Temporary
Suspended for tweets about the fictional character Baby Yoda.[247]
Repeated rule violations; one tweet read, "If it is proven @IlhanMN [Ilhan Omar] passed sensitive info to Iran, she should be tried for #treason and hanged".[248]
Posting identical messages, which Twitter said amounted to spam and "platform manipulation".[255]
Andrew Walz (@WalzRI)
Fake Republican candidate account
28 February 2020
A fake account claiming to be a Republican running for Congress in Rhode Island's 1st congressional district, whose teenaged operator tricked Twitter into blue check verifying it.[256]
Posting positive news coverage of the Serbian Progressive Party and Aleksandar Vučić and attacking their political opponents, with Twitter saying that the accounts "engaged in inauthentic coordinated activity".[260][261]
Promoting violence in a Texas rally against the stay-at-home order during the COVID-19 pandemic and evading the permanent suspension of Alex Jones and InfoWars.[266]
Violating Twitter's manipulation and spam policy after sharing a meme of Xi Jinping generated by using Joe Biden's avatar generator from his website.[267] His account was reinstated on 20 November 2022.
Banned after tweeting criticism of Michigan GovernorGretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home order and encouraging the state's citizens to violate the directive.[268]
Temporarily on 30 January 2020 possibly due to a tweet she made about rapper Stormzy.[273] Permanently, for "violations of the hateful conduct policy" after she voiced opposition to a school program providing meals for hungry children.[274]
Account suspended for half an hour on 14 October 2019 for sharing an edited scene from the 20th Century Studios' film Kingsman: The Secret Service depicting Trump murdering journalists, politicians, and news outlets.[275][276] Permanently banned for "repeated violations of this policy" after he created a fake CNN "racist toddlers" video of two toddlers, one black and one white, running toward each other and hugging, before running away together which Twitter added a "manipulated media" label on the video as racist. The video was taken down by Twitter following a copyright complaint made by the original content owner.[277]
Publishing BlueLeaks, 269 gigabytes of internal US law enforcement data obtained by the hacker collective Anonymous, for "dissemination of hacked materials" and "information that could have put individuals at risk of real-world harm".[278]
Permanent; later reinstated and then later suspended
Repeated acts of platform manipulation and hateful conduct towards transgender individuals.[279] In December 2020, Linehan attempted to circumvent the ban by activating another new account (@scarlysimon), which was subsequently permanently suspended as well.[280] The account was later reinstated on 22 December 2022. It was later suspended on 15 April 2023.
An automated spam filter had misidentified the party account as disseminating spam. Twitter undid the error on 10 September, two months after the erroneous suspension.[281]
Temporarily suspended in August 2017 for association with the Unite the Right rally.[293] Permanently suspended in July 2020 for hateful content.[294][295]
Violating Twitter's manipulation and spam policy after repeatedly sharing xenophobic, anti-Muslim, and hyper-partisan disinformation; U.S. President Donald Trump promoted several of the account's tweets.[302]
Li-Meng Yan's first account permanently suspended for linking to an upload of an unpublished pre-print paper claiming SARS-CoV-2 was made in a laboratory; she later created a new account (@DrLiMengYAN1).[305][306][307]
Violating Twitter's rules after posting a series of tweets relating to the controversy over VCK leader Thol. Thirumavalavan's statement on Manusmriti.[315]
Australian comedy group and satirical news publication
Temporary
Impersonating Donald Trump and tweeting "Don't vote for me, I'm a massive idiot".[318] The account was restored the next day but lost its verification.
The official Trapt Twitter account and Chris Taylor Brown's personal account were both suspended after Brown, who operated both accounts, wrote a series of tweets defending statutory rape.[326]
On 7 January, Trump's personal account (@realDonaldTrump) was suspended for 12 hours after Twitter removed three of his tweets.[331] This was elevated to a permanent suspension due to repeated and severe violations of Twitter's Civic Integrity policy, following his supporters' storming of the U.S. Capitol.[332][333][334] After his suspension, Trump used the official account of the U.S. President (@POTUS); Twitter deleted Trump's new tweets written after the suspension and threatened to suspend accounts used by him for "ban evasion".[335][336] Twitter also suspended the Trump presidential campaign's account (@TeamTrump) after it reposted the deleted tweets from @POTUS.[337][338][339] Both accounts were later reinstated on November 19, 2022.[340]
Posting a cartoon endorsing the storming of the US Capitol.[341] Part of a larger banwave on accounts expressing similar sentiments.[342] He later created a new account (@CartoonsBen) which is also suspended.
Gary Coby (@GaryCoby)
Digital Director for Trump's 2020 presidential campaign
Permanent; later reinstated
Attempted to help President Trump evade Twitter bans by using his account. Coby changed the name and picture of his account to those of President Trump.[343]
The embassy's Twitter account was suspended after it issued a Tweet defending the Chinese government's actions in Xinjiang province. The Chinese government has carried out policies of mass internment, intensive surveillance, "re-education", destruction of cultural and religious sites, forced labor, forced abortion, and forced sterilization, as part of a campaign of cultural genocide targeting Uyghurs. The embassy's Tweet—claiming that Uyghur women had been "emancipated" from extremism and were "no longer baby-making machines"—was deleted, and the account was suspended for violating Twitter's policy prohibiting "dehumanization of a group of people based on their religion, caste, age, disability, serious disease, national origin, race, or ethnicity".[355][356]
For a now-deleted tweet on the makers of Tandav, in which the actress had said that it was "time to take their heads off". She had posted the comment in response to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting asking the makers of the series to explain allegations of insult to Hindu gods in some scenes.[357]
The account's owner's date of birth was mistakenly set to 24 January 2014, the date the committee was created, causing the account to be automatically banned for not meeting the minimum age requirement of Twitter.[358][359]
CEO of My Pillow, conservative political activist, and conspiracy theorist
25 January 2021
Permanent; later reinstated
Repeated violations of Twitter's Civic Integrity policy. Lindell used his Twitter account to promote disinformation about the 2020 presidential election.[360] The account was later reinstated on 16 December 2022.
Violating Twitter's policy on ban evasion. After his personal account was banned for promoting disinformation, My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell used the company's Twitter account to post: "Jack Dorsey is trying to cancel me (Mike Lindell) out!"[362]
Indian-American engineer, politician, and conspiracy theorist
2 February 2021
Violating Twitter's Civic Integrity policy by promoting disinformation about US elections and the COVID-19 pandemic.[363] The account was later reinstated on 16 December 2022.
Repeated violations of Twitter's Civic Integrity policy by promoting disinformation about the 2020 U.S. presidential election.[364] The account was later reinstated on 16 December 2022.
Violating Twitter's policy against posting private information. Whitlock had posted an article about co-founder of Black Lives MatterPatrisse Cullors' purchase of a $1.4 million home.[375]
American right-wing political activist and founder of Project Veritas
15 April 2021
Permanent; later reinstated
Twitter stated that O'Keefe operated fake accounts in violation of Twitter's rules against platform manipulation and spam. O'Keefe responded to the ban by threatening to sue Twitter for defamation.[376] The account was later reinstated on 16 December 2022.
Violating Twitter's policy against posting private information. Writer Mara Hvistendahl published an article in The Intercept alleging that Oracle was marketing its data analytics software to police and security contractors in China. Glueck issued a rebuttal to the piece on Oracle's website, asking readers with "any information about Mara or her reporting" to contact him at his personal ProtonMail email address. Hvistendahl tweeted a screenshot of this sentence in Glueck's rebuttal, including Glueck's email address. Glueck then tweeted Hvistendahl's professional email address and Signal phone number, which were published in her original article, as a way to "return the favor". Twitter suspended Glueck's account for 12 hours; Hvistendahl's account was not suspended. Glueck's request for information on Hvistendahl was later removed from his rebuttal.[377][378]
For inciting hate and violence with a tweet demanding President's rule in West Bengal in response to alleged post-poll violence two days after election results were announced. Ranaut wrote, "This is horrible… we need super gundai to kill gundai… she is like an unleashed monster, to tame her Modi ji please show your Virat roop from early 2000's…#PresidentRuleInBengal [sic]".[379][380][381]
The Desk of Donald J. Trump (@DJTDesk)
Account reposting content from Donald Trump's website
5 May 2021
Violating Twitter's policy on ban evasion. The @DJTDesk account was sharing short, Twitter-like blog posts from the website of former U.S. president Donald Trump, whose Twitter account @realDonaldTrump had previously been suspended. In a statement, Twitter said that it would "take enforcement action on accounts whose apparent intent is to replace or promote content affiliated with a suspended account".[382] Trump spokesman Jason Miller denied that the account was set up by Trump or any of his affiliates.[383]
Suspended "in error", according to Twitter, and restored the same day.[384]
Nine accounts linked to Irish journalist and columnist Eoghan Harris, including @barbarapym2
Permanent
Violating Twitter's policy against platform manipulation. Harris had been operating an anonymous sock puppet account on Twitter under the name "Barbara J Pym". The account regularly posted incendiary tweets about Irish politics and had sent harassing messages to journalist Aoife Moore. Eight additional Twitter accounts with suspected links to the @barbarapym2 account were also later suspended. The Sunday Independent newspaper fired Harris from his job as a columnist; editor Alan English claimed that many of the tweets were "far beyond what I would describe as fair and reasonable comment". Harris claimed that he was only one of several people operating the @barbarapym2 account, and denied operating the other suspended accounts.[385][386][387]
Violating Twitter's hateful conduct policy, resulting in a 12-hour suspension. In response to an article about a trans man giving birth, Contreras had posted: "A man cannot get pregnant. A man has no womb or eggs".[389]
Suspended for 12 hours for posting a tweet invoking the violence of the Nigerian Civil War in his threats to the separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra, which users claimed was inciting violence against the Igbo people. The tweet itself was also deleted. The text was: "Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Biafra War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand".[390][391]
"Platform manipulation and spam", caused by her repeatedly retweeting a Miami Herald article about her tenure with the Florida Department of Health.[394] The account was later reinstated on 16 December 2022.
American white nationalist and far-right political commentator
9 July 2021
Permanent; later reinstated
Temporarily suspended in April 2021.[400] Permanently suspended in July 2021 for "repeated violations" of Twitter rules. The suspension happened the day after the Anti-Defamation League published an article titled "Nicholas J. Fuentes: Five Things to Know".[401] Fuentes' account was re-banned on 25 January 2023 after it had been reinstated the day before.[402] Reinstated by Elon Musk in May 2024.[403]
Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee)
US Congresswoman representing Georgia's 14th congressional district
19 July 2021
Temporary
Suspended for 12 hours for sharing misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines.[404]
British Islamist hate preacher convicted under the United Kingdom's Terrorism Act 2000
28 July 2021
Violating Twitter's rules on violent organizations and individuals. Choudary had been convicted on charges of supporting ISIL in 2016 and had been released from prison in 2018.[407] His account was banned alongside his Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn accounts weeks after restrictions on his ability to use the internet were lifted.[408]
Banned for propagating a fake story about a fictitious CNN journalist named "Bernie Gores", who they claimed was killed by the Taliban during the Fall of Kabul. None of the accounts were verified and, except for @CNNAfghan, this was their only tweet.[419]
Banned for 'disseminating hacked material, the policy on private information, and against the policy on platform manipulation and spam', following the hack of neo-Nazi conspiracy theorist Attila Hildmann.[423]
Permanently suspended after multiple violations of Twitter's COVID-19 misinformation policy throughout 2021. Her official congressional account (@RepMTG) was not suspended.[431] Greene is the first sitting member of Congress to have her personal Twitter account permanently suspended.[432] The account was reinstated 21 November 2022.[433]
Politics for All (@PoliticsForAlI)
News aggregate account
4 January 2022
Permanent
Banned for violating Twitter's rules against platform manipulation and spam.[434]
Brazilian businessman, co-founder and owner of Havan department stores
12 January 2022
Permanent; later reinstated
Suspended due to a court order issued by the Supreme Federal Court in an attempt to combat fake news in Brazil. Hang later stated his account was banned due to sharing a video denouncing the vaccination of children.[436] His account was reinstated 72 hours later.
Permanently suspended after releasing an animation targeting former US President Donald Trump in revenge for the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in 2020. Several other accounts belonging to Khamenei remain active on the network.[437]
Banned for violating the company's policies on platform manipulation and spam.[438]
@wordlinator
Bot account automatically responding to Tweets regarding Wordle games
26 January 2022
Suspended for "violating the Twitter rules and the automation rules around sending unsolicited mentions".[439]
@DefiantLs
Account highlighting hypocritical and contradictory tweets from public figures
15 February 2022
Temporary
Allegedly for circumventing a previous ban. The account's owner denies ever having been banned under any other account. The suspension was lifted the next day.[440]
Suspended or locked out for sharing images and videos showing Russian military movement into eastern Ukraine as part of the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis. Some of the affected accounts allege it is part of a coordinated campaign to remove their content.[441]
Account locked for hateful conduct after posting an attack on U.S. Health Assistant SecretaryRachel Levine, mocking her placement on USA Today's "Women of the Year" list. The Babylon Bee has refused to delete the Tweet in question. The account was reinstated on 18 November 2022.[446][447]
Account locked for hateful conduct after posting a Tweet mocking U.S. Health Assistant SecretaryRachel Levine's placement on USA Today's "Women of the Year" list. After initially refusing to delete the Tweet in question, Kirk complied with the request and regained access to his account five weeks after his suspension.[448][449]
American television host and conservative political commentator
23 March 2022
Account locked for hateful conduct after posting a Tweet mocking U.S. Health Assistant SecretaryRachel Levine's placement on USA Today's "Women of the Year" list. After initially refusing to delete the Tweet in question, Carlson complied with the request and regained access to his account a month later.[450][451]
Temporarily suspended for violating Twitter's "hateful conduct" policy after mentioning Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in a Tweet which criticised Islam.[455]
Canadian clinical psychologist, YouTube personality and author.
29 June 2022
Temporary
Temporarily suspended for misgendering actor Elliot Page. Peterson later stated he refused to delete the Tweet in question.[462] The account was restored in November of the same year after Elon Musk bought the company.[463]
Permanently suspended for unspecified violation of Twitter's corporate policies.[466][467]
@GBNews_UK
Fake news account
26 July 2022
Permanently suspended for posting a fake news article claiming that a lorry carrying £20,000 of oysters and champagne to Jacob Rees-Mogg's house was stuck in traffic.[468]
Banned after posting a tweet claiming the company was making insulin free, causing Eli Lilly to lose $15 billion in market capitalization.[483][484] This, alongside similar impersonation incidents, caused Twitter to temporarily suspend its Twitter Blue program.[483] On 1 May 2023, Eli Lilly's official Twitter account was changed from @LillyPad.[485]
Posting a picture of a Raëlism symbol resembling a swastika inside a Star of David and praising Adolf Hitler during his appearance on InfoWars earlier in the day.[491] Account was reinstated on June 29, 2023; but the account is not eligible for monetization.[492]
Account that tracked the private flights of Elon Musk.
14 December 2022
Permanent
Rule violations.[493] Musk in a previous tweet said the ElonJet's account was a "direct personal safety risk", and the account's owner said it was shadow banned prior to its suspension.[494] ElonJet was unsuspended for an hour before being banned again.[495]
@ZuccJet
Account that tracked the private flights of Mark Zuckerberg.
@JohnKerryJet
Account that tracked the private flights of John Kerry.
@TrumpJets
Account that tracked the private flights of Donald Trump.
Suspended for "prior doxxing". Lorenz claimed she was working on a story with Drew Harwell involving Musk, and got suspended after attempting to reach him for comment without any explanation.[503][504] The following day Twitter denied her appeal and permanently suspended Lorenz. Hours later her account was reinstated.[504]
Tweeting "This is the last straw. I give up. You can find a link to my new Mastodon profile on my site" after Twitter updated its policies to ban the promotion of other social media sites.[505]
Violating rule against "graphic violence or adult content in profile images" after he changed his profile picture to an image of him and his wife hunting.[507]
Unknown. Account restored a day later following appeals by the newspaper's editor, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, and U.S. Representative Ashley Hinson.[509][510]
Violating X's child pornography by posting an image of a victim of Peter Scully. Due to outrage from McGee's followers, his account was later unsuspended.[516][517]
^Lipin, Michael (9 January 2021). "Twitter Bans Trump, Removes Tweet by Iran's Khamenei on Same Day, Sparking 'Double Standards' Backlash". Voice of America. Archived from the original on 16 August 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2021. It was the first time since February 2019 that Twitter had acted against the Iranian supreme leader's main English account. That month, the @Khamenei_IR account posted a tweet endorsing a 1989 fatwa by his predecessor Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who had condemned British author Salman Rushdie to death for writing a book that the ruling cleric deemed insulting to Islam, The Satanic Verses. Twitter said the tweet about Rushdie constituted a threat of violence, removed it from public view and locked the @Khamenei_IR account for a day until the account owner deleted the post.
^Wermuth, Julian (17 September 2020). "Stammt das Coronavirus aus dem Labor? Diese 4 Punkte sollten dich skeptisch machen" [Does the coronavirus come from the laboratory? These 4 points should make you skeptical] (in German). Watson [de]. Archived from the original on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2020. Übrigens: Li-Meng richtete sich im September einen Twitter-Account ein. Nach kurzer Zeit löschte ihn Twitter wieder.
^Ward, Euan; Zhuang, Yan (17 December 2022). "Twitter Reinstates Suspended Accounts of Several Journalists". New York Times. Retrieved 18 December 2022. The account of Susan Li, of Fox Business Network, which unlike the others was suspended on Friday, has also not been reinstated. Ms. Li told Fox that she was suspended from Twitter after posting a link to an aircraft tracking website in an attempt to illustrate the ease in which Mr. Musk's private jet could be tracked using publicly available data.
^Ingram, David (25 October 2023). "Meta says it locked pro-Palestinian accounts after signs of security compromise". NBC News. Retrieved 26 October 2023. On X, the account @EyeonPalestine was listed as no longer being in existence. It wasn't clear when the account disappeared. The Internet Archive shows it active as of Oct. 13. X didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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