‘Extremists’ Flock to Twitter: ‘We’re Back’

Twitter earlier this week. $44 billion Announcing that he has reached an agreement to buy in return, Elon Musk said on the platform, which has been on his mind for a long time, ‘from the lack of freedom of speech‘ he was talking about. While Musk promised to make the platform more free after purchasing Twitter, these promises have already started to take effect.

But Musk’s promise of freedom also had upsides. With the news of Twitter’s acquisition, many accounts such as BioClandestine, which were previously reflected in the world press, claiming that the USA supported the development of biological weapons in Ukraine, and banned on Twitter because the news was false, He started giving turn signals to Twitter.

Far-right groups banned on Twitter are making a comeback:

Many of the accounts that were banned from Twitter consisted of far-right audiences in the USA. Donald Trump supporters and many ‘patriots’, such as the neo-fascist group Proud Boys, ‘We are back’ on other social media platforms with the news of Twitter. style shares. With this The conservative segment has seen an incredible increase in Twitter followers. was also revealed. That increase was demonstrated by The Verge as follows:

Donald Trump’s son is among the accounts that experienced the highest increase in the number of followers with the news of Elon Musk’s purchase. On Donald Trump Junior’s account seen. Sharing the increase in the number of followers himself, Trump Jr., who normally did not reach the five digits on the day of the news of Elon Musk, number of new followers It showed that it reached 87 thousand 296.

Research by The Verge revealed that 48 of 50 conservative accounts gained followers. The average number of followers these accounts gained was 17 thousand 229, while the conservative with the most followers. With 141 thousand 556 new followers Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Average across all 50 Liberal accounts Loss of 6,062 followers seen.