Twitter apologises for accidentally blocking New York Times account

Twitter is not new to making glaring mistakes in suspending or blocking the wrong people on the platform. 

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But this time it's quite massive. 

The social media platform apologised to the New York Times after it blocked its @nytimesworld account for 24 hours after an alleged violation of Twitter's rules about hateful conduct. 

The account had tweeted a story about Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau apologising to indigenous people in a Canadian province. Here's the tweet in question:

Left out of an apology a decade ago, native people in Newfoundland and Labrador get an apology from Justin Trudeau https://t.co/BRRIUNCVMw

— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) November 25, 2017 Read more...

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