SAN FRANCISCO (VINnews) — Another one bites the dust. Twitter has permanently banished another account off its platform for allegedly violating their terms and conditions.
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The unfortunate account is the libertarian financial website Zero Hedge. Harassment was the reason given for their sudden dismissal.
The permanent suspension came on Friday, after Zero Hedge published an article which examined the possibility of a Chinese scientist’s involvement of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
On their website, Zero Hedge publicly posted the name and personal info of a scientist who it said may have knowledge about the source of the virus. The man’s information subsequently spread across the internet.
In an article titled ‘Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?’, Zero Hedge’s pseudonymous author “Tyler Durden” went so far as to include a picture of said scientist at Wuhan’s Institute of Virology. In his piece, Durden advised his readers to pay this man a “visit” if they desired to found out more about the source of the deadly virus.
“Something tells us, if anyone wants to find out what really caused the coronavirus pandemic that has infected thousands of people in China and around the globe, they should probably” contact him, the article read.
Tyler Durden later published on the Zero Hedge website that he had received a notification from Twitter that he had violated “our rules against abuse and harassment.”
Indeed in an email to Bloomberg News, a Twitter spokeperson confirmed that the @zerohedge account, which had more than 670,000 followers, “was permanently suspended for violating our platform manipulation policy.”
Durden however feels that the ban is unjustified. He believes the ban was “likely motivated by reasons other than the stated ones.”
“We are confident that we did not violate any of the stated Twitter terms: we neither incited harassment, nor did we ‘dox’ the public official, whose contact information is as of this moment listed on the Wuhan institute’s website,” he wrote in an email to Bloomberg News.