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Musk personally policing twitter is pretty obvious for, like, last month or more. He personally picks accounts to restore and accounts to close.

And there are very clear patterns in both. Including him announcing some of these on Twitter.



Someone does something Elon doesn't like, magically the next day there's a rule against it that's arbitrarily defined and enforced, even if it contradicts something Elon has said in the past.

Like revealing a "bombshell" that Twitter was shadow banning users... only to then shadow ban the @ElonJet account.

https://archive.ph/jhJHd


And even before Elone Musk announced on Twitter new revolutionary idea how to deal with toxicity ... which was ... effectively shadowbanning.




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