Twitter Bans Milo Yiannopoulos for Leading Abuse Campaign Against Actress
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Twitter Inc. promised to strengthen its rules and procedures in order to curb targeted abuse against users, beginning with a ban against Milo Yiannopoulos, technology editor for the conservative news website Breitbart.
Known by his Twitter handle @Nero, Yiannopoulos is accused of leading an online campaign of racial and sexual taunts against Leslie Jones, who appeared in the Ghostbusters remake last week. Fed up with the abuse, Jones announced Tuesday that she was leaving Twitter for good.