A conservative journalist's X account was suspended after she investigated and debunked a conspiracy theory about Elon Musk using a burner account to praise himself.
An investigative reporter who debunked a bizarre conspiracy theory about X owner Elon Musk was kicked off the social media platform — sparking outcry over censorship by the self-avowed free speech absolutist. Jacqueline Sweet, a contributor for the conservative magazine The Spectator World, did a deep dive into long-percolating rumors that Musk was using a burner account under the name Adrian Dittmann to lavish praise on himself.
Sweet tracked down the real Dittmann, a German entrepreneur living in the South Pacific nation of Fiji, to disprove the theory.A conspiracy claiming Elon Musk uses an alias to shower himself with praise on his X platform, has taken a strange turn.After Sweet’s article outing Dittmann was published Saturday, Musk responded with his own cryptic post on X hours later. But the seemingly innocuous story took another strange twist Monday when The Spectator World’s managing editor Matt McDonald announced Sweet’s X account was suspended for 30 days and the links to her article had been slapped with a warning label, claiming “violent or misleading content.” He also shared screenshots that showed users attempting to access her article were met with warnings about unsafe content.Sweet’s last post on X came at 1:37 p.m. on Saturday, when she responded to a user about her article.Musk’s cryptic response came about 10 hours later. Sweet’s apparent ban sparked a firestorm with critics of Musk and X accusing the platform of suppressing content to protect Musk’s image
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