Twitter has banned the popular parody account @AOCPress despite it complying entirely with the service’s rules on satire by self-labelling as such. This account – a satire of Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – had over 85,000 followers at the time of the ban and is now permanently suspended. In an email sent to the account owner, Twitter claimed the reasoning: “you may not register or create fake and misleading accounts.” The tech giant then followed that statement by saying “you may use Twitter pseudonymously or as a parody.”