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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Alan Martin

Professor claims he was banned from Twitter for criticising Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s stated ambition to make X — the new name for Twitter — the home of free speech on the internet has taken another knock after a New York University professor claimed he had been locked out of his account for speaking his mind about the site’s billionaire owner.

“A mutual friend reached out and said Elon feels ‘unfairly attacked,’ by me, and wants to meet,” wrote Professor Scott Galloway on X’s rival Threads. “I declined.

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