Twitter have suspended multiple ultra-right wing accounts (Picture: Getty)

Twitter is getting tough on alt right trolls.

Last night, the social media site suspended multiple ultra-right wing accounts and announced a number of new anti-abuse features and retraining on staffs’ approach on handling hate speech and harassment.

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Alt-right opinion leaders such as Richard Spencer, his magazine @Radixjournal, Ricky Vaughn, John Rivers and Pax Dickinson, were all suspended.

Twitter have not revealed whether the action is part of a larger strategy to crack down on the ultra-right wing using the site as a platform, though it mirrors the plan employed against Islamic State-affiliated accounts.


The site also rolled out several new feature to combat harassment (Picture: Getty)

From mid-2015 and early-2016, an estimated 125,000 Twitter users who appeared to be promoting Isis were banned from the site, reports Buzzfeed.



When Metro.co.uk has reached out to Twitter, a spokesperson for told us: ‘The Twitter Rules prohibit violent threats, harassment, hateful conduct, and multiple account abuse, and we will take action on accounts violating those policies.’

Earlier this week Twitter rolled out a number of new security features to battle online abuse, trolling and hate speech.

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The existing mute feature has been updated to allow Twitter users to filter out specific words, phrases and hashtags from their newsfeed and mentions.

The function is able to mute entire threads without blocking another user.

Hateful tweets can now be reported for containing abusive or harmful language towards a race, religion, gender or orientation.

The team who deal with reported tweets are set to receive extensive training to deal with harassment and regular refreshers to deal with evolving coded language used by trolls in targeted abuse.