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WASHINGTON D.C. -- Twitter’s recently-announced "Private Information Policy" is being used as a weapon against the Twitter accounts of journalists, anti-racist activists, and researchers into extremism. Yesterday, investigators in Human Rights First’s Innovation Lab and Veterans for American Ideals discovered that white extremist leaders of an American neo-nazi party have compiled a list of 48 such accounts and instructed their followers to “brigade” them with complaints, so they are taken down in accordance with Twitter’s new policy.

Twitter's new picture permission policy was aimed at combating online abuse, but US activists and researchers said that far-right backers have employed it to protect themselves from scrutiny and to harass opponents.

Twitter's new picture permission policy was aimed at combating online abuse, but US activists and researchers said Friday that far-right backers have employed it to protect themselves from scrutiny a…

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Twitter’s recently-announced "Private Information Policy" is being used as a weapon against the Twitter accounts of journalists, anti-racist activists, and researchers into extremism. Yesterday, investigators in Human Rights First’s Innovation Lab and Veterans for American Ideals discovered that white extremist leaders of an American neo-nazi party have compiled a list of 48 such accounts and instructed their followers to “brigade” them with complaints, so they are taken down in accordance with Twitter’s new policy.

Twitter's new picture permission policy was aimed at combating online abuse, but US activists and researchers said Friday that far-right backers have employed it to protect themselves from scrutiny a…