“We do sweeps for spam/scam accounts and sometimes real accounts get caught up in them,” Elon Musk wrote on X, responding to the temporary ban of at least 8 accounts, including those of a handful of journalists.

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Leftist movements have been continuously attacked, suppressed, and fractured since the '60s (see also: the assassinations of MLK Jr. and Fred Hampton), if not earlier.

    Nevertheless, the subversion of Twitter is particularly significant.

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      1 year ago

      Almost as if they spend significant time and effort strategizing how to interfere with threats to their dominant position 😕