BATON ROUGE, La. — Twitter has restored a white nationalist group leader’s personal account less than a month after the social media company suspended it along with other accounts belonging to prominent members of the so-called “alt-right” movement.
Twitter allowed Richard Spencer, head of the Montana-based National Policy Institute, to reactivate the account Saturday. The company told Spencer that it suspended five of his accounts on Nov. 15 for violating a rule against creating multiple accounts with overlapping uses.
Twitter told Spencer in an email that his other accounts, including ones for his group and its publishing wing, will remain suspended.
Spencer says he had suspected that his accounts’ suspension was “purely an ideological thing.”
Spencer coined the term “alternative right,” an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism.
