That’s not the end of the story though. Twitter has also suspended the personal account belonging to Jack Sweeney (@JxckSweeney), reports Ryan Mac from The New York Times. Twitter hasn’t issued an official statement regarding the motive behind the suspension. However, Sweeney told The Verge that his account was subjected to heavy visibility filtering at the behest of Twitter’s trust and safety chief Ella Irwin. If you haven’t been following the Twitter Files leak saga, visibility filtering is corporate speak for reducing the visibility of a tweet or account by algorithmically suppressing it.
Musk had originally offered a sum of $5,000 to Sweeney in exchange for putting the account on cold ice. Sweeney, however, wanted to renegotiate with an offer of $50,000 to help with his college, fly with Musk in his private jet, and even proposed that if he lands an internship at Tesla, he would delete the account. The Tesla chief didn’t accept the offer and subsequently blocked him, Sweeney told The Guardian. Sweeney tells BuzzFeed that he will soon create a website version of @ElonJet and will post the jet activity on other platforms, adding, “I can’t let him win now.”
The suspension — permanent or otherwise — seemingly contradicts Musk’s own free speech absolutist ideals. Musk has previously claimed that banning Trump’s account was a grave mistake. After reversing the ban, Musk started unbanning thousands of other accounts following a public “general amnesty” poll. It appears that the suspension of some accounts has more to do with freedom of speech than others, and Sweeney just happens to fall in the latter class.
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