Twitter silent on if ‘violent extremists’ includes conservatives

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Twitter has failed to clarify whether any conservative commentators or journalists were included in the list of “violent extremists” the site claims to have suspended.

The site said in a press release Thursday that it had banned 235,000 accounts linked to “violent extremism” between February and August, but did not say specifically that they were linked to the Islamic State. The social networking giant did not return multiple inquiries submitted by the Washington Examiner seeking to find out how it defined “extremism,” or whether it included conservatives either broadly speaking or in specific reference to media personality Milo Yiannopoulos.

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