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Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts Facebook Twitter Google+ Email Enlarge this image Twitter has suspended some accounts linked to the alt-right movement. Twitter has suspended several accounts linked to the alt-right movement, which has been associated with white nationalism. The move comes as Twitter is rolling out a series of actions to curb hate speech and abuse on its platform as criticism has mounted of the company's failure to rein in harassment, racism, sexism and anti-Semitism. Suspended accounts include those of Richard Spencer, who is considered one of the movement's founders; his magazine  Radix Journal;  an associated account, @_AltRight_; and his Virginia-based think tank called the National Policy Institute, whose website describes it as "dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world." Other suspended accounts include th