Twitter suspends Mastodon's official account
Twitter has suspended the account of one other social media platform that has gained consideration in current weeks in mild of controversy Twitter has confronted since Elon Musk took over the corporate.
The Twitter account for Mastodon was suspended as of Thursday evening for violating Twitter’s guidelines. Mastodon turned extra common as a attainable various to Twitter within the aftermath of Musk’s acquisition of the latter on the finish of October, with the 2 platforms having some similarities but additionally key variations.
Mastodon will not be owned by a single firm or individual as a decentralized social media platform. It’s as a substitute made up of a community of servers that run independently however can join to permit individuals to speak.
Every server could make its personal selections about content material moderation, and potential customers are inspired to hitch a server with guidelines that they agree with.
Mastodon is funded by donations and grants and doesn’t function any adverts. Posts within the platform’s feed are additionally ordered chronologically as a substitute of by an algorithm.
Musk has emphasised his opposition to Twitter’s earlier content material moderation insurance policies and referred to as himself a free speech “absolutist.” He restored quite a few notable banned accounts like these of former President Trump, whose account was suspended within the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), whose account was suspended over repeated violations of Twitter’s COVID-19 misinformation coverage.
Twitter has since stopped imposing its COVID-19 misinformation coverage.
Virtually half of all of Mastodon’s customers joined after Musk took over Twitter in late October, the platform’s founder has mentioned.
Mastodon’s suspension comes at some point after Twitter suspended an account that tracked the actions of Musk’s personal jet utilizing publicly out there flight information. Musk had beforehand mentioned after buying Twitter that he wouldn’t ban that account based mostly on his personal assist totally free speech.
The Hill has reached out to Twitter and Mastodon for remark.
