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by adionionio 1017 days ago
They have absolutely tried to censor wrongthink. I don't know if the boss has had users banned, but he has clearly demanded interference.

Here are the two most famous examples:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter...

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-...

EDIT: A lot has happened in Twit-land over the last year, so I forgot all about the ElonJet affair. Twitter has banned people to try to suppress news the owner didn't like.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/business/media/elon-musk-...

Here is the current tracker, by the way.

https://mastodon.social/@elonjet

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I disagree with Twitter's decision on the first count and don't have a good opinion about the second.

However these examples fall far short of what other social media companies are doing. On YouTube a year ago you could be banned for suggesting that Covid could started as a lab leak.