“No more free speech?”: Musk accused of X-censorship over MAGA vs. India Row

Laura Loomer and Elon Musk

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Several MAGA Members, including influencers Laura Loomeraccused Elon Musk that he censored them after an incident on his platform X H-1B Visas and foreign workers. Loomer claimed the tech billionaire removed her blue checkmark and downgraded her from the reward, blocking her monetization. Many of these users made the same allegations.

“I have now also been banned from being able to buy bonuses. We are always told to buy premiums. But if you criticize immigration, your bonus check will be taken away and you will also be banned from buying bonuses. Pure censorship. MAGA.” has been silenced,” Loomer said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

At least 10 other influencer accounts made similar claims. X has yet to respond to these allegations against the platform and Musk.

In an apparent response, Musk tweeted: “However, any accounts found to be involved in coordinated attacks on muted/blocked spam target accounts are themselves – correctly – categorized as spam. Live by the spam, die by the spam.”

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The debate began after Laura Loomer attacked Sriram Krishnan’s appointment as Trump adviser on AI policy. Additionally, she targeted other Indian-Americans and referred to immigrants as “Third World invaders.” “The average IQ in India is 76,” she further tweeted.

Musk defended Krishnan and intervened in the H-1B debate. “The ‘fixed pie’ fallacy is at the core of much flawed economic thinking. The potential for job and business creation is essentially endless. “Think of all the things that didn’t exist 20 or 30 years ago!” he said. The billionaire’s DOGE co-chief, Vivek Ramaswamy, took a pro-H-1B stance.

Loomer, former presidential candidate Nikki Haley and several MAGA members criticized Musk and Ramaswamy. President-elect Donald Trump has not yet responded to this argument from his supporters.