Hamas and Hezbollah-affiliated accounts, including Al-Manar and the Quds News Network 1 November 2019 A part of Twitter’s crackdown on “illegal terrorist organizations and violent extremist groups”, performed after reviewing accounts highlighted by US representatives Josh Gottheimer, Tom Reed, Max Rose, and Brian Fitzpatrick, who accused Twitter of violating the legislation by doing enterprise with “international terrorist organizations”. Twitter reversed its earlier determination to allow a platform for non-military arms of terrorist organizations. Eoin Lenihan (@EoinLenihan) Researcher and educator 29 May 2019 Banned from Twitter for abusing multiple accounts. Carl Benjamin (@CarlUKIP) UKIP accounts 26 April 2019 Violating Twitter’s terms of service. Correo del Orinoco Pro-Maduro Venezuelan newspapers 1 May 2019 Unknown Unspecified; occurred in the course of the 2019 Venezuela uprising. David Horowitz (@horowitz39) Conservative activist and creator 7 May 2019 Temporary Unknown. TheTweetOfGod Account operated by David Javerbaum 11 June 2019 Temporary Tweeting, “If gay individuals are a mistake, they’re a mistake I’ve made a whole lot of thousands and thousands of occasions, which proves I’m incompetent and should not be relied upon for anything”. Min Aung Hlaing (@SGMinAungHlaing) Commander-in-Chief of Tatmadaw 16 May 2019 Permanent Spreading propaganda in opposition to Rohingya folks. 170,000 Chinese, one thousand Russian, and 7340 Turkish accounts 11 June 2020 Found to be linked to propaganda and disinformation supportive of their respective governments.

88,000 Saudi-linked accounts 20 December 2019 Permanent State-backed information operations originating in Saudi Arabia that “violated platform manipulation insurance policies”. Joey Salads (@JoeySalads) American conservative media personality 12 May 2020 Permanent Violating Twitter’s manipulation and spam coverage. Alex (@alx) Turning Point USA ambassador 17 April 2020 Permanent; later reinstated Violating Twitter’s manipulation and spam coverage after sharing a meme of Xi Jinping generated through the use of Joe Biden’s avatar generator from his web site. 70 professional-Michael Bloomberg accounts 21 February 2020 Posting identical messages, which Twitter stated amounted to spam and “platform manipulation”. Saud al-Qahtani (@saudq1978) Former media advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman 20 September 2019 Permanent Banned for violating the corporate’s “platform manipulation” policies. Briscoe Cain Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives 13 September 2019 Temporary Suspended for 141 days after refusing to take away a perceived violent risk towards Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke. Dominique Bertinotti, minister for the family, thought-about that these words “don’t honor” the member and replied: “On the time of PACS, you proclaimed the end of the world. The tip of the world did not occur”. Which statement calls for a few particular words on the best of dad and mom to regulate the manufacturing of progeny.

BabyNutBaby Meme accounts tied to Planters three February 2020 Permanent Astroturfing in help of the “Baby Nut” marketing campaign. Andrew Walz (@WalzRI) Fake Republican candidate account 28 February 2020 A faux account claiming to be a Republican working for Congress in Rhode Island’s 1st congressional district, whose teenaged operator tricked Twitter into blue check verifying it. The account was reinstated in June 2020 with Twitter saying the suspension was in error. Zero Hedge (@zerohedge) Far-right libertarian monetary weblog 31 January 2020 Permanent; later reinstated Publishing an article falsely accusing a Wuhan Institute of Virology doctor of releasing SARS-CoV-2 as a biological weapon and doxxing mentioned doctor. The Federalist (@FDRLST) American conservative webpage 25 March 2020 Account locked for selling an article advocating COVID-19 pox parties, which was harshly criticized by public health officials. Chiitan (@ogecebel) Mascot of the town of Susaki, Japan 17 May 2019 Permanent (original account) Unknown. Dozen accounts related to Venezuela’s government and army 8 January 2020 Unknown Unspecified breach of guidelines. 8558 professional-Serbian Progressive Party and pro-Aleksandar Vučić accounts 2 April 2020 Permanent Posting constructive information protection of the Serbian Progressive Party and Aleksandar Vučić and attacking their political opponents, with Twitter saying that the accounts “engaged in inauthentic coordinated activity”.

Logan Cook (@carpedonktum) Pro-Trump meme account 23 June 2020 Account suspended for half an hour on 14 October 2019 for sharing an edited scene from the 20th Century Studios’ movie Kingsman: The secret Service depicting Trump murdering journalists, politicians, and news shops. That tabloid often featured stories with outrageous headlines, akin to, “Woman Gives Birth to Alien.” We could snicker at such titles, but what’s not so humorous is that within the final decade or two, with the expansion of the Internet and social media, faux information tales and whole fake information sites have proliferated. I know I might have been pissed about that finale. A new visitor writer tells us some things about Austen we probably did not know. Mitch) Political marketing campaign for US Senator Mitch McConnell 7-9 August 2019 Temporary Posting a video that included violent threats towards McConnell. 200,000 Chinese accounts 19 August 2019 Permanent Believed the accounts have been part of a Chinese authorities influence campaign targeting the protest movement in Hong Kong. Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) Resistance Twitter activists 23 May 2019 Permanent; later reinstated Operating faux accounts.