{"id":1099139,"date":"2021-12-08T15:14:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1099139"},"modified":"2021-12-08T15:14:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:14:05","slug":"twitter-blacklists-account-providing-updates-on-ghislaine-maxwell-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-blacklists-account-providing-updates-on-ghislaine-maxwell-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Blacklists Account Providing Updates on Ghislaine Maxwell Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-blacklists-account-providing-updates-on-ghislaine-maxwell-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1099139&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Twitter has blacklisted an account posting courtroom updates from the trial of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of sex trafficking minors. The popular account\u2019s suspension comes amid a wide-ranging purge of anonymous accounts from new CEO Parag Agrawal\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n<p>An account set up to monitor the investment portfolio of house speaker Nancy Pelosi following <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2021\/07\/08\/house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-husband-paul-big-tech-stocks\/\">insider trading allegations<\/a> was also taken down.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.3333333333333\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8lnnoVYP5X\">pic.twitter.com\/8lnnoVYP5X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Solana (@micsolana) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/micsolana\/status\/1468614638904365057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.680981595092\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">twitter just suspended the account that was live tweeting updates from the epstein\/maxwell trial <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cv7E5JlgQR\">pic.twitter.com\/cv7E5JlgQR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 shoe (@shoe0nhead) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shoe0nhead\/status\/1468605413134372867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The account following the Maxwell trial had over 500,000 followers prior to its suspension. The account following Pelosi\u2019s investments had over 200,000.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>This came a few days after a large number of highly-followed anonymous conservative accounts were taken down by the platform, and a week after Parag Agrawal replaced Jack Dorsey as CEO.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.379821958457\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Twitter leadership appears to be purging right wing anon accounts. <\/p>\n<p>No pretext could ban all of these accounts at the same time. Some kind of new banning algorithm has been deployed, probably using network analysis to suppress an entire cluster at once. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KUinpb9FGi\">pic.twitter.com\/KUinpb9FGi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Allum Bokhari (@LibertarianBlue) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibertarianBlue\/status\/1468076600877015050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Pelosi investment tracker humorously presented itself as a source of sound investment advice, noting the unusually high level of success of the Speaker\u2019s investments, and calling her the \u201cnext Warren Buffett.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/FAk0gW4XEAMKph3.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Pelosi Portfolio Tracker on Twitter: &amp;quot;How it started: How it&amp;#39;s going: https:\/\/t.co\/6r9uftTL5P&amp;quot; \/ Twitter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News has reached out to Twitter about the suspension of anonymous accounts, but has not yet received a response.<\/p>\n<p>Agrawal, the new CEO of Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/11\/29\/twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-our-role-is-not-to-be-bound-by-the-first-amendment\/\">has said in interviews<\/a> with the corporate media that free speech is no longer a priority for the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur role is not to be bound by the First Amendment, but our role is to serve a healthy public conversation and our moves are reflective of things that we believe lead to a healthier public conversation,\u201d said Agrawal in an interview with <em>MIT Technology Review&nbsp;<\/em>last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kinds of things that we do about this is, focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026increasingly our role is moving towards how we recommend content and that sort of, is, is, a struggle that we\u2019re working through in terms of how we make sure these recommendation systems that we\u2019re building, how we direct people\u2019s attention is leading to a healthy public conversation that is most participatory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has blacklisted an account posting courtroom updates from the trial of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of sex trafficking minors. 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