“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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    10 months 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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      10 months ago

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

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      Leftist movements have been kept fractured in the US since the start of the 20th century. The lefts accomplishments peaked in the 1930s and 40s with FDRs new deal. And has been on a steady fractured declined since.