#NBCFail: Twitter Bans British Journalist for Bashing NBC Olympics Coverage
<div class='node-body'><p>A foreign correspondent for one of the UK's most widely read newspapers has been "suspended" by the social media network Twitter after the foreign correspondent posted tweets critical of the NBC coverage of Olympics now being held in London.</p>
<p>In a statement, NBC confirmed it filed a complaint against Adams with Twitter, saying: "We filed a complaint with Twitter because a user tweeted the personal information of one of our executives."</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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