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According to an Axios report, a Twitter ban on Nick Fuentes remains. He tried to reinstate his Twitter account after Elon Musk purchased the platform.  

According to reports his now-banned new account was using the handle @spookygoblin8. But the account was blocked. And the ban on Fuentes remains.

Fuentes is the founder of the America First Foundation which is labeled by the Department of Justice as a white supremacist organization.

The former YouTuber had his account suspended on YouTube in February 2021 for “hate speech.” In December 2021, he was suspended on Twitter for violations of Twitter's content moderation policy. And he was banned on several other social media platforms around the same time.

Fuentes is self-described as an American nationalist, Christian conservative, and a paleoconservative.

He has openly, often in rants laced with vulgarity expressed antisemitic views, anti-gay views and is known as a Holocaust denier.

 Fuentes' followers call themselves “Groypers.” In the recent years they have been protesting and shouting down more right leaning groups like Turning Point and speaking events by former President Trump’s son Don Jr. 

The Groypers also protest and mob the left, for example the 2021 U.S. Capitol riots.

Fuentes and others who were previously under a Twitter ban, have tried setting up new accounts on the platform. Radio talk show host Stew Peters was re-banned on Friday after he tried to set up a new account on Twitter.

Peters has been an allied with Fuentes on some issues. And on multiple occasions he has claimed that people he disagrees with should be killed.

In 2021, he was feuding with Republicans General Michael Flynn and Marjorie Taylor Greene. In the 2022 America First Political Action Conference, he called for both Democrat Anthony Fauci to be lynched, and Vernon Jones to be executed in the electric chair.

Twitter ban avoids “free-for-all Hellscape”

When Elon Musk became “Chief Twit”, he emphasized his desire for a digital town square environment which focuses on free speech.

The billionaire also made it clear that Twitter would need to honor local laws of any country. And that he didn’t want the platform to turn into "a free-for-all Hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences!"

Musk has posted that Twitter will create a new content moderation council. And it would allow "widely diverse viewpoints.”  Until the new council is formed “no major content decisions or account reinstatements" will be allowed.