Activists say an Occupy Wall Street X account that praised Elon Musk is operated by a disaffected former member of the movement.
stunned the world in 2011 with a two-month encampment in lower Manhattan’s Zucotti Park, during which activists protested economic inequality and corporate greed in the aftermath of the Great Recession. But the ongoing global movement — leaderless by design — was not without internal battles that sometimes spilled onto social media channels crucial to the cause.
On Wednesday, another shot was fired in a long-running dispute between an apparently disaffected former organizer and an Occupy group that has continued to support protests for organized labor, racial justice, and anti-fascist principles. An account on X, formerly, with the handle @OccupyWallSt and about 160,000 followers, posted for the first time since early 2020, in a rather surprising way: “We shall be the first interplanetary social movement,” thereads.
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