Spanish court backs Twitter's temporary ban on Vox party over Islamophobic tweet
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Loading... - Sharon Lambert
- 09 Mar 2022
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The social media platform decided to block the far-right party from tweeting for eight days in early 2021 during the party's electoral run in Catalonia.
In one of the tweets related to its "Stop Islamisation" campaign, Vox shared the inaccurate statistics that Muslim immigrants make up just 0.2 per cent of the population in Catalonia, but were responsible for 93 per cent of crimes committed.
After Twitter blocked the party's account for inciting hatred against Muslims, Vox decided to take Twitter to court.
"The billionaires in the tech world don't want people to understand the consequences of the migration invasion that they promote alongside certain governments," responded Vox leader, Santiago Abascal, at the time, slamming the move as "censorship."
Now, more than a year later, the Supreme Court threw out Vox's case.
The court's main argument for backing Twitter's decision was that Vox agreed to the rules of the social media platform when it opened the account.
Twitter also suspended Vox from tweeting in 2020, after it accused the ruling Socialist Party of "promoting paedophilia with public money." Read More…
