Posted on 11/30/2022 11:46:51 AM PST by cotton1706
The Intercept published a story yesterday titled “Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk.” Like the article itself the headline is a bit vague on what is happening and why. What is clear is that over the past few days a bunch of well-known anti-fascist accounts have been suspended.
Several prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had their accounts suspended in the past week, after right-wing operatives appealed directly to Musk to ban them and far-right internet trolls flooded Twitter’s complaints system with false reports about terms of service violations.
As the Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin noted on Twitter, the suspended users include Chad Loder, an antifascist researcher whose open-source investigation of the U.S. Capitol riot led to the identification and arrest of a masked Proud Boy who attacked police officers. The account of video journalist Vishal Pratap Singh, who reports on far-right protests in Southern California, has also been suspended.
Among the other prominent accounts suspended were the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, an antifascist group that provides armed security for LGBTQ+ events in North Texas, and CrimethInc, an anarchist collective that has published and distributed anarchist and anti-authoritarian zines, books, posters, and podcasts since the mid-1990s.
All four accounts had been singled out for criticism by Andy Ngo, a far-right writer whose conspiratorial, error-riddled reporting on left-wing protests and social movements fuels the mass delusion that a handful of small antifascist groups are part of an imaginary shadow army called “antifa.” In a public exchange on Twitter on Friday, Musk invited Ngo to report “Antifa accounts” that should be suspended directly to him.
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ReEEeeE Ree ReEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
“Andy Ngo, a far-right writer”
Just proof these idiots see anyone to the ‘right’ of Marx is “Far right.”
No one in DC saw anything 'unfair and/or 'of concern' until a platform worked at being fair to conservatives.
Will 50 Intelligence thugs publish a letter saying being fair to conservatives is a Russian disinformation campaign?
Not much bias on the part of the guy that wrote this article is there?
No one in DC saw anything 'unfair and/or 'of concern' until a platform worked at being fair to conservatives.
Will 50 Intelligence thugs publish a letter saying being fair to conservatives is a Russian disinformation campaign? Count on it.
“They mad”
I went over there. The site is vile.
They wanted my e-mail to keep reading. No way Jose.
Someone needs to tell Hot Air these punks are NOT anti-fascists. They are little worms who are playing dress up and stirring sh!t up where they are not welcome. I can’t explain how much I really really hate ANTIFA. Do gooder punks who justify their violent actions.
Him and Allahpundit are both leftist twits. That is why I laugh now that they want money to read their articles and comment. I might do that for Townhall, which throws in Hot Air I believe. Hot Air fell far from the tree of its original creator Michelle Malkin.
The guy who got punched is an Antifa with a history of violence. He was making a slashing motion and appeared to have something in his hand.
Well then, it was a good punch thrown for a good cause, to someone who definitely had it coming. Bravo!
They call them anti fascists in the article, and the slant of the article is that Andy Ngo is the fascist. Antifa is a violent fascist organization from the top guy, to the last recruit.
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