Musk is literally asking his Neonazi friends which Twitter-accounts he should ban for them.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/29/2139104/-One-red-pilled-billionaire-is-transforming-a-democratic-space-like-Twitter-into-far-right-nightmare
More disturbingly, however, a number of prominent left-wing activist accounts have been suspended without explanation—but the reasons for the bans are more than apparent in Musk’s own exchanges with pseudo-journalist Andy Ngo, who essentially identified all of the accounts that were eventually suspended by name, as Robert Mackey and Micah Lee report at The Intercept:
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In fact, all four accounts had been singled out for criticism by Ngo, one of the right-wing propagandists primarily responsible for fomenting the “antifa” bogeyman narrative, a hollow farrago of far-right demonization. Musk and Ngo had a public exchange Friday in which the billionaire invited Ngo to report directly to him any “Antifa accounts” that needed suspending.
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The same morning, at 9:21 am, we received an email from notify@twitter.com establishing that our account was not in violation of Twitter policy, reading “Twitter is required by German law to provide notice to users who are reported by people from Germany via the Network Enforcement Act reporting flow. We have received a complaint regarding your account, @crimethinc […] We have investigated the reported content and have found that it is not subject to removal under the Twitter Rules … or German law.” We did not receive any other such emails.
Crimethinc told The Intercept: “This suggests that the decision to ban our account shortly thereafter was dictated by Musk himself, without regard for the Twitter Rules or any other protocol other than his own apparent allegiance to the far right.”
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One of the profiles Musk was told about was mine. And so, within hours of fascists complaining to Elon Musk about me while Nazis simultaneously circulated a purge list with my name on it AND programmed bots to report every profile in the list—my Twitter profile was suspended. The original Nazi-allied Telegram account that posted the original list has essentially taken credit for taking my account down, as have the fascists who lobbied Elon Musk personally.
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Likewise, Loder wasn’t sure that Musk directly had a hand in their suspension: “What I believe happened is that I and other accounts have been mass reported for the last few weeks by a dedicated group of far-right extremists who want to erase archived evidence of their past misdeeds and to neutralize our ability to expose them in the future,” Loder told The Intercept. “What I suspect happened is that Twitter’s automatic systems flagged my account for some reason and no human being is reviewing these.”
Regardless, Loder observed, it’s clear that Twitter is “no longer a viable platform” for users conducting research into fascist groups or related security issues: “If I get my account back, it’s only a matter of time before I get mass reported again.”
Loder noted sardonically that Twitter “is going to turn into Gab with crypto scams.”
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