Portugal: Twitter shuts down right wing Chega party leader’s account

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Portugal: Twitter shuts down right wing Chega party leader’s account

10:39 CAT | 23 Feb 2022

File photo: Lusa

Twitter on Wednesday permanently suspended the account of the leader of Chega for violating the social network’s rules regarding “hate speech”, with André Ventura considering “taking legal action”.

According to a message shared by André Ventura with Lusa, the social network has conveyed to the Chega leader that his account “has been suspended and will not be reinstated because it violates Twitter’s terms of service, specifically Twitter’s rules against hate propagation”.

“It is against our rules to promote violence, or directly attack, or threaten others based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religion, age, disability or illness,” the message read.

Twitter further stressed that, “if it determines that an account’s primary purpose is to harm others based on one of these categories, that account may be suspended without notice.”

Without the message in question specifying what was the content that led to the suspension of the account, André Ventura indicated that it was “evidently” a publication he shared with an image of the attack perpetrated in Paris on 7 January 2015 – where a policeman and 11 journalists from the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were killed – and the message “only Chega understands the risks of uncontrolled Islamic immigration”.

In a message sent to Lusa, Ventura considered that the suspension is the “zero degree of democracy” and wondered if “you can’t talk about the dangers of Islamic immigration, or gypsies attacking the hospital of Famalicão?”

“I will probably take legal action,” he said.

Source: Lusa