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Twitter has removed most of Hezbollah's television accounts, saying there is " no place on Twitter for illegal terrorist organizations and violent extremist groups ." In Beirut, the management of the chain has denied breaking the rules of the social network.
With our correspondent in Beirut, Paul Khalifeh
After YouTube and Facebook from 2017, it's now Twitter's turn to block Hezbollah al-Manar television accounts. The Lebanese Shiite party chain has announced that seven of its accounts, including pages in English, French and Spanish, followed by one million people, have been blocked. A spokesman for the social network, based in San Francisco, confirmed the information.
According to channel officials, Twitter has yielded to political pressure exerted by a group of elected US Congress.
Since Donald Trump's election to the White House, the campaign against the Shiite party has been significantly increased. The US authorities have imposed sanctions on more than 50 people or entities that are linked to Hezbollah . The president of the parliamentary bloc and several members of the party were struck by these measures, and the US Treasury Department threatens any Lebanese bank that would open an account to a leader or elected representative of the pro-Iranian formation .
Arab countries have followed in Washington by imposing sanctions against Hezbollah. The al-Manar channel was banned from the Arabsat and Nilesat telecommunication satellites at the beginning of the crisis in Syria.