A social-media account for white male supporters of Kamala Harris was briefly suspended from X, formerly Twitter, sparking anger online.
Newsweek observed that the White Dudes for Harris X account had been temporarily suspended after the group held a star-studded virtual call on Monday night that raised more than $4 million.
It is not clear why the account was suspended, but it appeared to have been restored as of the early hours of Tuesday. The automated message when the account was suspended read: “X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.”
Mike Nellis, who is involved in the organization, shared an update on Tuesday explaining that while the X account is live again, it still remains suspended.
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In response to the suspension, Ross Morales Rocketto, an organizer for the group, wrote, “Got @elonmusk [X owner] scared.”
Brett Meiselas, the co-founder of outlet MeidasTouch, shared on X a photo of the suspended account, along with the message: “This is the real election interference.”
That’s not helpful. Twitter being a dumpster fire has exactly nothing to do with whether things that take place there are newsworthy.
The fact that the top-voted response to a news story is someone berating us for our presumed Twitter usage is one of the really fucking annoying things about Lemmy. It’s like if the top comment on every thread about the Ukraine war was “STOP JOINING THE RUSSIAN ARMY!”
I don’t think OP is telling us, specifically, to stop using Twitter. It’s more of a “Why are people still using Twitter?”