David Duke Banned on Twitter for Hate Speech

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Twitter bans former KKK leader Duke

Former Ku Klux Klan leader and Louisiana state legislator David Duke has been banned from Twitter for breaking the social media platform’s site’s rules forbidding hate speech.

The company said Friday that Duke’s account “has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter rules on hateful conduct.”

It didn’t specify what exactly Duke posted that triggered the ban, but its policy on hateful conduct prohibits promoting violence or threatening attacks against people based on religious affiliation, race and ethnic origin.

His most recent tweets included a link to an interview he conducted with Holocaust denier Germar Rudolf. Other posts promised to expose the “systemic racism lie” and the “incitement of violence against white people” by Jewish-owned media.

Duke was the leader of the white supremacist KKK from 1974 to 1978.