Conservatives and anti-vaxxers are frantically lobbying Elon Musk to lift Twitter bans on their idols after he took over
Writing"free them all," Newsmax pundit Benny Johnson posted a video to Twitter on Friday showing the accounts of dozens of rightwing and far-right figures including Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mike Lindell,"Proud Boy" Gavin McInnes, and Alex Jones.
The head of Russia's state-controlled media outlets RT and Sputnik, Margarita Simonyan, also asked Musk to remove restrictions on their accounts.enforcing legal sanctions on the networksSimonyan and others also complained about"shadowbans" — a term that describes limiting a post's reach covertly while leaving it live.
. Following the networks' ban across the EU, Musk wrote in text messages that Russian media has a"lot of bullshit, but some good points too." An Australian far-right outlet's correspondent, Avi Yemini, called for the return of British extremist Tommy Robinson,
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