Far-right activist Laura Loomer claims she was suspended on X by Elon Musk

Far-right activist Laura Loomer has announced that she has been suspended from her job at X Company for 12 hours following a clash between billionaire owner Elon Musk and MAGA base over highly skilled foreign workers.

Loomer said in a post Friday afternoon that she was temporarily banned from the social media site for “expressing concerns and speaking the truth about the technocratic takeover of our country and the White House.”

“How can you call yourself a ‘free speech absolutist’ and punish someone by restricting speech?” Rumer wrote. “We need to have an honest conversation about Big Tech’s influence on MAGA.”

Rumer said Mr. X also removed her blue check mark and deactivated her subscription. Users may receive compensation from X for their posts by providing a subscription to the feed, but Content must comply with the rules of XAccording to her post, Rumer violated this.

The online brawl began after Loomer criticized Sriram Krishnan, a former partner at the Indian-born venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz, who was chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to be his artificial intelligence advisor. Loomer took issue with Krishnan’s previous support for allowing more highly skilled immigrants into the United States. She subsequently fired Mr. Musk from a number of his positions, with the claim that highly skilled immigrants don’t have “running water or toilet paper.”

Loomer was banned from several social media sites in 2020, before Musk owned the platforms. She has a history of spreading the word far-right conspiracy theory and anti-immigrant views. Loomer has direct ties to Trump and even accompanied him to the presidential debate in September.

Musk, who poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Trump’s re-election effort, bought the social media company then known as Twitter in 2022, in part because the company blocked users too aggressively. Because he said it was too much. He said at the time that part of his mission in managing the platform is to promote free speech and an open forum for discussion.

A spokesperson for Trump’s transition team said Trump himself has not yet spoken out as the online rift boils over and becomes public. pointed to the X post It was written by incoming White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller and cited President Trump’s 2020 speech on American innovation.

But the turmoil between Trump supporters in Silicon Valley and the anti-immigrant MAGA base reflects some of the key challenges in today’s Republican Party. That means the coalition that supported Trump’s second term won’t necessarily work out.

Musk has not directly commented on Loomer’s suspension, but I posted a “Notice” This means that if a user is repeatedly blocked or muted by other trusted accounts, the algorithm will automatically minimize the impact on the user.

“Rumer is trolling for attention. Ignore him,” Musk wrote about X.