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X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation (www.vice.com)
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[–] UID_Zero@infosec.pub 48 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No official, public explanation. We know why...

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They'll claim it was an accident or outage, but those accounts weren't struck at random.

Internally, is someone curating a list of prominent accounts by political leaning? Are those accounts the target or right wing report bombing? I want to know exactly how those accounts were landed on.