Twitter has banned the Canadian Nationalist Front a day after Facebook also blocked the white nationalist group. Facebook banned a host of far-right groups and figures in Canada on Monday including Faith Goldy—who ran for mayor of Toronto last year—as well as the Canadian Nationalist Front and its leader Kevin Goudreau. Twitter has now reportedly followed suit, suspending a number of accounts associated with the white-nationalist group. The company declined to comment on the bans but confirmed that multiple accounts affiliated with the group had been permanently suspended under its violent extremist group policy, according to the Globe and Mail. Social media companies have been under intense pressure from Canadian lawmakers to stop hate speech from spreading online since the New Zealand mosque shootings. Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould warned Monday: “This is something you could do on your own, but in the absence of you doing it on your own, then we need to look at other mechanisms.”
