A social-media account for white male supporters of Kamala Harris was briefly suspended from X, formerly Twitter, sparking anger online.

Newsweek observed that the White Dudes for Harris X account had been temporarily suspended after the group held a star-studded virtual call on Monday night that raised more than $4 million.

It is not clear why the account was suspended, but it appeared to have been restored as of the early hours of Tuesday. The automated message when the account was suspended read: “X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.”

Mike Nellis, who is involved in the organization, shared an update on Tuesday explaining that while the X account is live again, it still remains suspended.

In response to the suspension, Ross Morales Rocketto, an organizer for the group, wrote, “Got @elonmusk [X owner] scared.”

Brett Meiselas, the co-founder of outlet MeidasTouch, shared on X a photo of the suspended account, along with the message: “This is the real election interference.”

    • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Fuck Instagram

      Fuck Threads

      Fuck Facebook

      Fuck Meta

      In addition to every other known problem, Meta treats artists like absolute shit. Yet we’re forced to use it because no other platform has as many people. It’s hell.

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      I mean, this is the wrong place to preach.

      I’m pretty sure the fediverse is an echo chamber against all the corporate social media, whilst the corporate social media is an echo chamber for it.

      We all keep saying things like fuck X but here in the fediverse we’re not giving anyone any info they didn’t already know.

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        What too much of the fediverse needs as a takeaway, though, is when those certain groups start whining about changing the system. Like dude, we can’t even get our closest people to switch from WhatsApp to signal. How are we gonna change the system?

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        Yeah, for sure. I’m just hear preaching to the choir, and the corporate alternatives are too much of a shit show for me to waste my time and talk to people about it where it might actually have an effect.

        At least we’re over here creating a viable alternative. And while monthly active users in Fedidb is in a steady decline, my enjoyment of these platforms is increasing every month. So in that sense I’m not overly concerned - I’m just a bit frustrated by how fascism doesn’t seem to be a deal breaker for as many people as I thought.

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        Yeah I spend most my time on Lemmy in the fediverse now, it’s definitely preaching to the choir. Someone big on Twitter needs to adopt the fediverse to make change, but tbh everything about mastodon/fediverse/Lemmy is really confusing to the average person. I’m pretty tech literate and it took me a while to figure out/set up my fediverse experience to be close to Reddit.