Twitter suspends accounts sharing beheading images
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced Wednesday that the social network was suspending all accounts that posted images from the appalling video allegedly showing the beheading of photojournalist James Foley.
"We have been and are actively suspending accounts as we discover them related to this graphic imagery. Thank you," Costolo tweeted.
Foley, 40, was kidnapped in Syria about two years ago while working as a freelance journalist, according to The New York Times. News of his whereabouts since then has been scant. On Tuesday, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria posted a gruesome video to YouTube that it said was the beheading of Foley. The authenticity of the video has not yet been verified and YouTube has since pulled it.
