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Twitter has suspended the accounts of two leaders of a British far-right party shortly after revising its rules on hate speech.
Paul Golding, Britain First's leader, and Jayda Fransen, his deputy, can no longer tweet and their past posts no longer appear.
The party's official Twitter page has suffered the same fate.
It appears that three of Ms Fransen's posts that President Trump retweeted have gone from his feed as a result.
The messages had featured anti-Muslim videos and proved highly controversial when the American leader shared them in November.
British Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said it had been "wrong for the president to have done this".
Ms Fransen and Mr Golding were arrested earlier this week over separate behaviour relating to Northern Ireland.
Restricted Swastikas
Twitter announced in October that it planned to take a tougher stance against hate symbols as well as those who posted messages that glorified or condoned violence.
It has now said that those who express an affiliation with groups that use or celebrate violence to achieve their aims will be permanently suspended.
Hateful imagery - such as the Nazi swastika - can still be posted, but will initially be hidden behind a "sensitive media" warning, that visitors must disable to proceed. However, such content will no longer be allowed on a person's profile page.
Those that featured examples will be asked to remove them. Repeat violators will be banned.
The company said the move would "reduce the amount of abusive behaviour and hateful conduct" on the network.
"If an account's profile information includes a violent threat or multiple slurs, epithets, racist or sexist tropes, incites fear, or reduces someone to less than human, it will be permanently suspended," she explained.
"We plan to develop internal tools to help us identify violating accounts to supplement user reports."
Twitter has promised a system to appeal against decisions, but said that it was still in development.
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