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Madeleine McCann: Twitter account deleted over 'toxic content' Madeleine McCann: Twitter account deleted over 'toxic content'
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The official Twitter account backing the search for Madeleine McCann has been deleted because of "toxic content" directed at it.The official Twitter account backing the search for Madeleine McCann has been deleted because of "toxic content" directed at it.
In a statement on Facebook, the Find Madeleine webmaster said the decision was made after talking to Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann. Tension has been building between supporters of the campaign to find Madeleine and the campaign to find Ben Needham.
The Facebook and Twitter accounts were started in 2008 to raise awareness. The Find Madeleine webmaster said the Twitter account was deleted after consulting Madeleine's parents.
But the webmaster said there had been "hatred and sheer viciousness directed at Kate and Gerry". Ben Needham's mother told the Mirror she was "shocked and hurt".
"I have myself had massive amounts of slanderous abuse from supporters of the McCann Campaign in the past but I have never taken that personally," she told the newspaper.
"I have never criticised the McCann family. I have only every criticised the authorities for the way the two cases have been handled so differently."
In a statement on Facebook, the Find Madeleine webmaster said "hatred and sheer viciousness" had been directed at Kate and Gerry McCann.
"At times, it has had me in tears," the statement said.
"It is hard to accept that some people can be so cruel to a family that has already experienced the worst pain imaginable."
The Facebook and Twitter accounts were started in 2008 to raise awareness of the campaign to find Madeleine, who disappeared during a family holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007.
Ms Needham's 21-month-old son Ben vanished from the Greek island of Kos in July 1991.