Journalist Laurie Penny banned from Facebook for using pseudonym

New Statesman columnist tweets displeasure after being kicked off social media site, saying she used alias to avoid being trolled

Facebook has been accused of putting users at risk "of rape and death threats" by a journalist who was banned from the social networking site for using a pseudonym.

Laurie Penny, a contributing editor at the weekly political magazine the New Statesman, who also writes for the Guardian, said she had been kicked off Facebook for using a fake name to avoid being trolled.