Late Tuesday evening, USA Today reported that Twitter had suspended several accounts associated with racist white nationalist users and groups, including the account of Richard B. Spencer.

Spencer is the president of an organization that describes itself as being “dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States.”

That group, the “National Policy Institute,” also had its Twitter account suspended.

In a Tuesday video to supporters, Spencer said he was "alive physically," but he likened the suspensions to "digital execution squads all over the alt-right," and compared it to the "Night of Long Knives," a momentous event in Nazi history where Adolf Hitler purged much of his own leadership.

Further Reading Twitter bots can reduce racist slurs—if people think the bots are white expands the service's “mute” feature.

As the company wrote in a Tuesday blog post: