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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 09:28 PM Dec 2022

Calling Out Right-Wing Media Is Apparently a Bannable Offense on Elon Musk's Twitter

Yesterday, Andrew Lawrence, writer for the left-wing site Media Matters, was briefly suspended from Twitter for posting “spam.” According to NBC reporter Ben Collins, Twitter didn’t specify what Lawrence had posted that counted as spam, and on the day of the suspension, Lawrence’s only posts were criticisms of Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk and Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. Lawrence’s account has since been reinstated, also with no explanation.




Lawrence’s first post before the suspension was a tweet pointing out that Musk has yet to make good on his promise to unveil a Tesla’s completed humanoid robot. Musk is currently claiming that his company Neuralink will start implanting microchips in the brains of humans within six months.

Lawrence’s second post before the suspension was a tweet criticizing Tucker Carlson, after Carlson falsely claimed that the National Hockey League is discouraging white people from playing hockey.

As of this writing, there’s still no word on why Lawrence’s account was suspended. Did Musk take personal offense at the criticism? Was Lawrence reported by right-wing Twitter users? After his account was reinstated, Lawrence pointed out that many smaller left-wing accounts are also being suspended, but their creators don’t have the reach that Lawrence does.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/calling-out-right-wing-media-is-apparently-a-bannable-offense-on-elon-musk-s-twitter/ar-AA14PyqL

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