Elon's takeover of Twitter was heralded by his fans as a renaissance for free speech. But the reality of Musk’s content moderation revamp has been defined by the billionaire exercising his own petty grievances.
The suspensions come days after Sweeney posted, from his personal account, a screenshot of an internal Twitter message provided to him by an anonymous employee who informed him that as of Dec. 2, @ElonJet had had its “visibility limited/restricted to a severe degree internally.” The internal message, from newly minted head of trust and safety, read: “Team please apply heavy VF to @elonjet immediately,” VF meaning “visibility filter.
Sweeney wrote to followers that the account was “search banned” and that it had been having visibility issues “for months now way before [Elon’s] takeover.” The shadowbanThe screenshot of Irwin’s Slack message message is no longer visible following Sweeney’s suspension on Tuesday, which came hours after he tweeted about the suspension of the @ElonJets account.
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