{"id":25058,"date":"2020-06-15T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2597604"},"modified":"2020-06-15T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T11:51:00","slug":"twitter-restores-zerohedge-account-following-permanent-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/15\/twitter-restores-zerohedge-account-following-permanent-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter restores ZeroHedge account following permanent suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4127-logo-417.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/h4s8v9y2.stackpathcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/REUTERS-Twitteroo.png\" width=\"522\" height=\"261\" data-original=\"https:\/\/h4s8v9y2.stackpathcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/REUTERS-Twitteroo.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Twitter restores ZeroHedge account on its platform after concluding that suspending the popular financial websites account was an error.<\/p>\n<p>KEY POINTS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Twitter restores the popular ZeroHedge account<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Twitter had permanently suspended the account back in February of this year for violating &#8220;platform manipulation policy&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The platform apologised, stating &#8220;We made an error in our enforcement action in this case&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Suspension allegedly came after a complaint by activists at Buzzfeed relating to an article posted on ZeroHedge<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In February, Twitter banned ZeroHedge after it published an article linking a Chinese scientist to the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We made an error in our enforcement action in this case. Based on additional context from the account holder in appeal, we have reinstated the account,&#8221; Twitter said in a statement. It gave no further detail and did not say what additional context it had received.<\/p>\n<p>The website, which covers mostly finance and economics-related news but often from a libertarian perspective, posts articles using the pseudonym Tyler Durden, a fictional character played by Brad Pitt in the movie &#8220;Fight Club&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter said in February it had permanently suspended the account for violating &#8220;platform manipulation policy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It gave no further reasons for the suspension but&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/\">ZeroHedge<\/a>&nbsp;said the social media company had received a complaint from left-wing news property&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.platformexecutive.com\/product\/buzzfeed-profile-and-strategic-swot-analysis\/\">BuzzFeed<\/a>&nbsp;over an article that contained personal information about a scientist from Wuhan and made allegations about coronavirus having been &#8220;concocted as a bioweapon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Buzzfeed and ZeroHedge did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.platformexecutive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.platformexecutive.com\/<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>David Holmes<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>David Holmes<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4127-logo-417.png\" alt=\"\">Twitter restores ZeroHedge account on its platform after concluding that suspending the popular financial websites account was an error. KEY POINTS: Twitter restores the popular ZeroHedge account Twitter had permanently suspended the account back in February of this year for violating &ldquo;platform manipulation policy&rdquo; The platform apologised, stating &ldquo;We made an error in our enforcement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/06\/15\/twitter-restores-zerohedge-account-following-permanent-suspension\/\">Continue reading <span>Twitter restores ZeroHedge account following permanent suspension<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/15\/twitter-restores-zerohedge-account-following-permanent-suspension\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Twitter restores ZeroHedge account following permanent suspension - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/15\/twitter-restores-zerohedge-account-following-permanent-suspension\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Twitter restores ZeroHedge account following permanent suspension - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Twitter restores ZeroHedge account on its platform after concluding that suspending the popular financial websites account was an error. 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