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Twitter has suspended a total of nine accounts it believes are linked to an anonymous account contributed to by prominent former Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris.
The well-known writer and former senator was dropped by the Sunday Independent as a columnist this week after management learned he was contributing to an account behind a fake name.
The announcement was made by the newspaper’s editor Alan English on Thursday night. He said the content posted from the account, much of which was directed at Sinn Féin and nationalists, went beyond fair and reasonable comment.
“We regard Eoghan Harris’s involvement with this account as a betrayal of trust and as such his contract has been terminated.”
The account, which used the handle @barbarapym2, after the English novelist, has since been permanently suspended by Twitter, along with eight other Twitter accounts the company believes to be linked to it.
A Twitter spokeswoman confirmed the move on Friday, saying that “platform manipulation is strictly prohibited under the Twitter Rules”.
“The account you referenced was permanently suspended for violating the Twitter Rules on platform manipulation and spam,” the company told The Irish Times.
“We also suspended eight accounts linked to the account referenced for violating our policy on platform manipulation and spam.
“Using technology and human review in concert, we proactively monitor Twitter to identify attempts at platform manipulation and mitigate them – we will continue this approach to platform manipulation and any other attempts to undermine the integrity of our service.”
Mr Harris confirmed he was involved in running the Barbara Pym account, which he said was operated by a “team of five or six people”. He declined to name these people, saying he did not want to “get them shot.”
However, he denied running any other anonymous accounts. One of the suspended accounts, belongs to a real woman aged in her 40s who was a student of Mr Harris, he said.
He said this woman is appealing the suspension of her account.
“How would I have the energy to run nine accounts,” said Mr Harris who is 79.
Since February 2020, the Barbara Pym account has been posting strident and sometimes abusive anti-Sinn Féin content. It was also regularly used to praise the work of Mr Harris and his colleagues at the newspaper while railing against other journalists’ work.
One of the account’s targets was Irish Examiner political correspondent Aoife Grace Moore.
“This account sent me sexualised messages about whether Mary Lou McDonald ‘turned me on’, the size of my arse and called me a terrorist from the month I started at the Examiner. Since then, I’ve had to go to counselling and the guards,” Ms Moore tweeted on Thursday after the Sunday Independent announced it had dropped Mr Harris.
In one tweet sent last October, the Pym account tweeted “Moore thinks she is sniping safely from behind Derry hedges, but she’s actually sniping from an ROI hedge in the Examiner and her SF backside is sticking up in the air.”
In June, Ms Moore tweeted that Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald had just taken her seat as the first female leader of the opposition. “So that’s what turns you on?” the Pym account replied.
Mr Harris denied these tweets were offensive on Friday afternoon and said there is a long history of writers using pseudonyms.
He said he has asked Twitter to go into the Pym account’s private messages to confirm none of them were offensive.
Ms Moore, who is from Derry, said she was not in a position to comment.
Another account linked by Twitter to the Pym account previously accused Ms Moore of being a “Provo” writing for a “Provo rag.”