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Twitter Blocks Promotion Of Democrat’s Video Over ‘Abortion Advocacy’

“The mention of abortion advocacy is the issue here,” a Twitter employee told North Carolina candidate Rachel Hunt, according to emails HuffPost reviewed.
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POLITICS TWITTER ABORTION NORTH CAROLINA

Twitter Halts Promotion Of Campaign Video Due To ‘Abortion Advocacy’​


“The mention of abortion advocacy is the issue here,” a Twitter employee told North Carolina candidate Rachel Hunt, according to emails HuffPost reviewed.

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Alanna Vagianos
Jun 15, 2023, 03:24 PM EDT

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RACHEL HUNT CAMPAIGN FOR LT. GOVERNOR


Twitter blocked a Democrat’s campaign video from being promoted on its platform because it expressed support for abortion rights, according to email conversations obtained by HuffPost.

The video, created by North Carolina state Sen. Rachel Hunt (D) for her campaign for lieutenant governor, centers on abortion rights in North Carolina and the fall of Roe v. Wade. Hunt says in the video that she’s running for lieutenant governor to combat anti-choice Republicans who recently passed a 12-week abortion ban in the state.

“When Roe v. Wade came to rural America, women woke up to a different world. A world with a bit more time. Little girls were little girls a little longer. Young women had the freedom to stay or go. The word ‘liberty’ was finally being used to talk about our lives,” Hunt says in the campaign video. “The important decisions didn’t get easier, but they were hers. A move to the city for college, for a career, for life ― those dreams didn’t have to end with an unplanned pregnancy.”

“I’m running for lieutenant governor because the Republican plan isn’t this year’s 12-week abortion ban ― it’s next year’s total abortion ban,” she continues. “We’re talking about 50 years of precedent. Not just legal precedent, but how three generations of women have lived their lives.”



The video is still available on Twitter, but the Hunt campaign cannot currently advertise or promote the video on the platform.

It’s common for companies and political candidates to pay Twitter to advertise content, whether it’s campaign videos or promotional material for certain products. Hunt’s campaign told HuffPost that they had set up a budget with Twitter to advertise certain videos, but then they noticed the money hadn’t been spent and the ad hadn’t been boosted by the platform.

When the Hunt campaign reached out to Twitter to inquire about the holdup, an employee said the video was blocked from promotion because of “the mention of abortion advocacy.”

“Ah yes, the mention of abortion advocacy is the issue here,” a Twitter employee told Hunt’s campaign Wednesday in an email reviewed by HuffPost. The employee said the company may have “some good news to share on that front” in the next week or so, seemingly suggesting it may change its standards and practices on content discussing abortion rights.

“For now, though, you still won’t be able to message around that topic,” the employee added.

HuffPost reached out to Twitter for comment and received an automated response with a poop emoji, as is now standard.
Hunt said she’s deeply concerned that Twitter believes content regarding abortion rights should be prohibited.

“This campaign is about representing the issues most important to North Carolinians ― including ensuring that all women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies,” she told HuffPost.

“I find it deeply concerning that Twitter considers the topic of protecting our fundamental freedoms as prohibited content,” Hunt continued. “Regardless, I will continue to focus on sharing my message with voters in every community in every part of the state.”

Since business mogul Elon Musk bought Twitter last year, the social media platform has shifted conspicuously to the right. When Musk took over, he immediately invited several right-wing extremists who had been kicked off Twitter back to the platform, including former President Donald Trump. Musk gutted the company from 7,500 employees to now closer to 2,000, laying off people in critical roles and curtailing employees’ ability to moderate hate speech and misinformation.
 
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so her tweet is only available to people who follow her, go to her profile, or have the tweet link. it won't be in related tweets of people with similar interests or boosted in anyway.
 
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Twitter has suspended the accounts of a prominent Tesla and Elon Musk critic, PlainSite founder Aaron Greenspan

Before he bought Twitter, Musk remarked, "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means."
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Twitter has suspended the accounts of a prominent Tesla and Elon Musk critic, PlainSite founder Aaron Greenspan​


PUBLISHED THU, JUN 15 2023 2:59 PM EDT
UPDATED THU, JUN 15 2023 6:36 PM EDT

Lora Kolodny
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KEY POINTS
  • Elon Musk-led Twitter on Tuesday suspended the Twitter accounts of PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, a prominent critic of Tesla and Musk.
  • The move runs counter to promises of free speech by Musk and new Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino.
  • Greenspan has meticulously tracked litigation by or against companies mostly in the U.S., including Tesla and Twitter.

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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, speaks with CNBC, May 16, 2023.
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Twitter suspended the accounts of PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, a prolific Tesla and Elon Musk critic, Tuesday afternoon.

PlainSite is an online database that makes state and federal court filings and other public records available to users for free. The site also offers analytics features to paying subscribers, meant to help lawyers and pro-se litigants gain insights about attorneys, judges, government offices and the law.

Greenspan has meticulously tracked litigation by or against companies mostly in the U.S., including Tesla, Twitter — which Musk took private in an acquisition last year — as well as competitors GM, Meta and a myriad of others. He and Musk have also been involved in litigation over the years.

At the time PlainSite’s account was suspended, it boasted more than 24,000 listed followers on Twitter. Greenspan’s personal account had about 2,500 followers.

The suspension stands at odds with public statements from Twitter’s executive chairman and CTO Elon Musk, and newly appointed CEO Linda Yaccarino. Yaccarino was previously global advertising chief at NBCUniversal, the parent company of CNBC.

In April 2022, after Musk announced his intention to acquire Twitter, he wrote in a tweet, “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.”



More recently, Yaccarino wrote in a company-wide memo that a healthy civilization needs an “unfiltered exchange of information and open dialogue about the things that matter most to us.” She also said in the memo, “You should have the freedom to speak your mind. We all should.”

Greenspan told CNBC on Thursday that he has not yet received information from Twitter saying why the company suspended his accounts, though he has requested a reinstatement of both.

He also discussed some of the reasons why he started the “legal transparency initiative” PlainSite, and how he came to be regarded as an Elon Musk nemesis.
“I created PlainSite with two friends in 2011, because we were all wondering why Occupy Wall Street didn’t have the impact we expected,” he reminisced. “No financial execs went to jail for the 2008 financial crisis though it really was obvious there had been criminal wrongdoing somewhere. One reason, we thought, was that people didn’t understand what the law said and what are the loopholes banks or execs were able to exploit to get out of being held accountable.”

Over the years, Greenspan has shorted stock in some of the companies he has researched and written about on PlainSite, disclosing those positions when he held them. He is not short Tesla today, but he has been in the past, he said.

Why PlainSite began looking into Tesla​


PlainSite began its focused research on Tesla in 2018 after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Musk and Tesla with civil securities fraud.

The charges came after Musk tweeted he was considering taking Tesla private at $420 per share and had funding secured to do so, causing a halt in trading that day and sending Tesla stock into a period of volatility for weeks.

Musk and Tesla settled the charges with the regulators, without admission of guilt or the ability to claim innocence.

Greenspan said, “I was not interested in Tesla until the SEC took action against the company and Elon that year. That got me thinking that it may be over-valued, given the fact it was running into trouble with financial regulators.”

A community on Twitter, including short sellers and other subject matter experts interested in what Tesla was doing, became frequent PlainSite users and subscribers.

Court filings and public records rendered easily searchable by PlainSite often revealed details about Tesla’s troubles and tactics. PlainSite records obtained through FOIA requests have been widely cited by press including CNBC, Reuters, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and many others.

Since 2018, Greenspan has made court filings and other public records available on PlainSite that revealed:
  • Twitter is facing more than 25 lawsuits over nonpayment to vendors since Elon Musk took over in October 2022.
  • Even as Musk continuously promised shareholders Tesla was on the brink of delivering a “level 4-5” self-driving robotaxi, the company’s Autopilot engineers categorized its most advanced driver assistance systems as “level 2″ in official government communications with the California DMV. A level 2 system is not self-driving. It requires drivers to keep their hands on the wheel.
  • Complaints sent to attorneys general in Texas, Nevada and Ohio, showing Tesla customers there were not able to get the electric vehicle maker to provide required documentation to register their vehicles with local DMVs.
  • Musk once attempted to refer a former process technician at Tesla’s Gigafactory, whistleblower Martin Tripp, to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Nevada for criminal prosecution (p. 192).
  • Musk knew but did not tell shareholders that SolarCity was facing a liquidity crisis at the time the Tesla board was pushing for an acquisition of the solar installer, which was started by Musk’s first cousins and where Musk was a major investor and board member.

In May 2020, Greenspan sued a Tesla promoter alleging harassment, and named Musk as a party contributing to that harassment in the lawsuit.

In February 2023, Musk sued Greenspan for publishing correspondence between the two of them on Twitter and PlainSite. The emails are still available on PlainSite.

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
 
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