(Euro Weekly) The tech giant Twitter said that they had briefly suspended the official account of Spain’s right-wing Vox party as one of their tweets had violated their hate speech policy. In order to unlock their account, the company said, all the party needed to do was remove the “offensive” tweet.
The post in question referred to what Vox sees as the “dangerous Islamisation of Catalonia” — in which the right-wing party decried the increasing numbers of Muslims residing in Spain’s second most multicultural region after Madrid.
Referring to Muslims, Vox’s post claimed that “they account for approximately 0.2% (of the population) and are responsible for 93% of (police) complaints. Most are from the Maghreb.”
