Twitter bans white supremacist David Duke after 11 years

The former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard has faced a belated backlash from social media companies

In 1999, the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke predicted that the Internet would help give birth to a coming white revolution".

The news media did not give him friendly coverage, he wrote on his website, but on the internet, he could reach supporters directly, starting a chain reaction of racial enlightenment".