Far-right activist Laura Loomer said she was suspended for 12 hours on X-Day following a confrontation with her billionaire owner Elon Musk and the 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 “raising concerns and telling the truth about the technocratic takeover of our country and the White House.”
“How can you call yourself a ‘free speech absolutist’ and then punish someone by restricting their speech?” Loomer wrote. “We need to have an honest conversation about Big Tech’s influence on MAGA.”
Loomer said that X also removed his blue check mark and deactivated his subscriptions. Users can get paid X for their posts by offering subscriptions to their feeds, but the The content must comply with the rules of X.which Loomer raped, according to her post.
The online fight began after Loomer criticized President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for AI adviser: Sriram Krishnan, a former partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz who was born in India. Loomer took issue with Krishnan’s previous support for allowing higher-skilled immigrants into the United States. He later launched a series of anti-Musk posts along with claims that high-skilled immigrants have “no running water or toilet paper.”
Loomer was previously banned from several social media sites in 2020, before Musk owned the platform. She has a history of spreading. far-right conspiracy theories and anti-immigrant opinions. Loomer has a direct line to Trump and traveled with him to a presidential debate in September.
Musk, who poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Trump’s re-election, bought the social media company then known as Twitter in 2022, in part because he said the company blocked users too aggressively. Part of his mission in controlling the platform, he said at the time, was to foster a space for free speech and open debate.
Trump himself has yet to intervene as the online dispute has become public, although a spokesperson for his transition team pointed out a post written by incoming White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, citing a 2020 Trump speech on American innovation.
But the uproar between Trump supporters in Silicon Valley and the anti-immigrant MAGA base reflects some key challenges for today’s Republican Party: The coalition that helped give Trump a second term won’t always get along.
Musk has not commented directly on Loomer’s suspension, but posted “a reminder” that the algorithm automatically minimizes a user’s reach if they are repeatedly blocked or muted by other credible accounts.
“Loomer is looking for attention. Ignore.” Musk wrote in X.