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Elon Musk claims to be fighting for free speech in America but the social networks new owner appears to be overseeing a purge of left-wing activists from the platform.
Several prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had their accounts suspended in the past week, after right-wing operatives appealed directly to Musk to ban them and far-right internet trolls flooded Twitters complaints system with false reports about terms of service violations.
As the Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin noted on Twitter, the suspended users include Chad Loder, an antifascist researcher whose open-source investigation of the U.S. Capitol riot led to the identification and arrest of a masked Proud Boy who attacked police officers. The account of video journalist Vishal Pratap Singh, who reports on far-right protests in Southern California, has also been suspended.
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Among the other prominent accounts suspended were the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, an antifascist group that provides armed security for LGBTQ+ events in North Texas, and CrimethInc, an anarchist collective that has published and distributed anarchist and anti-authoritarian zines, books, posters, and podcasts since the mid-1990s.
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/
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(25,981 posts)Takket
(21,577 posts)The new Truth Social.
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)And start a new website to document all of this. I wonder what is going to happen here. Will Twitter implode and then they can get rid of m? I hope so.