Twitter suspends Jewish newspaper, SPD politician for anti-AfD tweets
14 May 2019 |
2:24 pm
Twitter temporarily blocked accounts of a Jewish paper and a Berlin politician for allegedly publishing election misinformation. Both offending tweets had to do with criticism of the far-right AfD party.
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