SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) - The libertarian financial website Zero Hedge was permanently suspended from Twitter on Friday (Jan 31) after it published an article questioning the involvement of a Chinese scientist in the outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus.

On its website, Zero Hedge's pseudonymous author "Tyler Durden" said he received a notification from Twitter that he had violated "our rules against abuse and harassment."

Earlier on Friday, BuzzFeed reported that the Zero Hedge website shared the name and personal information of a scientist who it said may have knowledge about the source of the virus, whose details then spread across the internet.