Twitter’s Latvian-speaking censors shield abusive right-wing trolls

Juris Kaža
4 min readApr 8, 2023

I have been “permanently” banned from Twitter for one reason: those on the social media platform who oversee and censor tweets in the Latvian language are deliberately shielding racist, xenophobic and right-wing trolls.

Yes, I have used harsh language against my opponents, some of whom call black people “monkeys”, who compare immigrants to animals and who presume that all Muslims are murderous jihadists and should be deported to the last person from Europe. Add to that rabid haters of LGBT people. All of that has…

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Juris Kaža

A freelance journalist based in Riga, Latvia who has covered the country and region for 20 years. Speak native Latvian and English, fluent Swedish and German.