craig brittain
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">==</span></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/twitter-again-suspends-fringe-republican-senate-candidate-who-promoted-conspiracy">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/twitter-again-suspends-fringe-republican-senate-candidate-who-promoted-conspiracy</a></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">Republican running for U.S. Senate in Arizona has been suspended from Twitter after posting conspiracy theories about the Parkland school shooting massacre, the <em>Phoenix New Times</em> <a href="https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/twitter-suspends-arizona-senate-candidate-craig-brittain-10284184" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">reported Friday</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">“Recently, [Craig] Brittain had been spreading gross conspiracy theories about the Parkland shooting survivors, calling them paid actors,” the paper reported. “Brittain tweeted constantly under the name @SenatorBrittain, sharing missives that ranged from utterly bonkers to deeply offensive.”</p><div id="TeadsNative" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">Jaclyn Corin, a Parkland survivor, <a href="https://twitter.com/JaclynCorin/status/975805093013487616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2F2018%2F03%2Ftwitter-bans-trump-loving-gop-senate-candidate-pushed-parkland-student-conspiracy-theories%2F" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">responded</a> to one of the allegations Brittain made.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">“I have already appealed, but Twitter’s appeal process is a kangaroo court,” Brittain charged. “Once banned, you don’t get unbanned.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">“After continually hiding tweets from most of our followers and refusing to verify our account, today Twitter proved that it is in the business of trying to rig elections for the left, as CEO Jack Dorsey is a donor and member of the Clinton Foundation,” Brittain claimed. “Millions of conservatives and libertarians have been banned without reason, including Milo Yiannopoulos, Roger Stone, and others.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">The Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with Brittain in 2015 over a <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/02/06/revenge-porn-apology-craig-brittain/#294652ac2ad9" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">revenge-porn website</a> that would demand hundreds of dollars from victims.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">Previously, Brittain claimed his Twitter account had been suspended because of his support for President Donald Trump with a doctored image.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">...</p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=-</font></p>