Twitter Inc late on Tuesday permanently suspended a number of user accounts for harassment, vowing to redouble its efforts to quickly thwart abusive behavior and block repeat offenders from the social media site.
The move appeared to be a response to abuse and harassment that Ghostbusters actor, Leslie Jones, who is black, said on Monday had become so severe that she was quitting the service.
Jones retweeted and shared several abusive tweets she received on Monday before telling her 250,000 followers, "I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart. All this cause I did a movie. You can hate the movie but the shit I got today....wrong."
Jones also shared some of the racist tweets targeted toward her, many of which compared her to an ape. User YellowArmedlmposter wrote, "Your Ghostbusters isn't the first to have an ape in it," which Jones shared with the comment, "I just don't understand."
Among those banned was Breitbart tech editor, Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative who has been a provocative figure on Twitter for years and was accused by Jones and other Twitter users of feeding the abuse.
After Jones blocked him on Twitter, Yiannopoulos tweeted a screenshot of her page and wrote, "rejected by yet another black dude." He is also accused of sharing a racist tweet from an account purportedly belonging to Jones, according to the screenshot in a news article.
In a CNBC interview on Wednesday, Yiannopoulos denied sending sexist or racist tweets to Jones, and said the only "proof" was that he teased the actress on Twitter because he didn't like her movie. He added that he was not responsible for other people's tweets.
"I used to wonder why some celebs don't have Twitter accts now I know," she wrote in one tweet. In a separate post, she added, "Twitter I understand you got free speech I get it. But there has to be some guidelines when you let spread like that."
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