X has locked and suspended the accounts of journalists and researchers who shared the alleged identity of a neo-Nazi cartoonist known as Stonetoss after the cartoonist appealed to site owner Elon Musk.

The incident, critics say, highlights once again how Musk has not only welcomed extremists onto his platform but has repeatedly boosted their conspiracies, engaged with their accounts, and seems to have protected them from scrutiny.

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    8 months ago

    I think it was already the precedent for mainstream social media to delete illegal content from their sites (such as doxxing). Although they did delete the entire accounts of the doxxers, not just the dox itself, which I think is setting a precedent.