One of Twitter's most famous trolls, Milo Yiannopoulos, bit the dust this week when Twitter permanently suspended his account.
The conservative pundit and Breitbart editor, known for railing against "political correctness" and feminism, lost his account in the wake of racist abuse directed at Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones by several Twitter trolls.
That abuse, much of it sparked by Yiannopoulos' negative commentary on the Ghostbusters movie, forced Jones off the site for the time being and brought renewed attention to a push to ban Yiannopoulous.
They're not the first pair to leave Twitter because of abuse. Read more...
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