X restricted a user's post calling for voters to vote out politicians that sympathize with Hamas: X user Ryan Duff responded to a post by Leading Report about Cori Bush being down in the polls before she lost her primary. "BREAKING: Democrat Cori Bush is down big early in Missouri's first congressional district primary," Leading Report posted. Duff responded saying, "Good. Hamas caucus needs to be eliminated at the ballot box," according to screenshots he shared on X. Duff said that three weeks after posting his reply, he received a notification from X saying, "Your post was detected by our systems and has had its visibility limited for violating X rules." The platform added, "We have determined your post violated our rules against Violent Speech. You may not share abusive content, harass someone, or encourage other people to do so." It is unclear how this would have violated X's policies as his post makes explicitly clear he is referring to voting lawmakers out of office not calling for violence against them. Duff said he appealed the censorship but X doubled down on its decision. "Our support team has determined that a violation of our rules did take place, specifically around Violating [sic] our rules against violent speech. Therefore, we will not overturn our decision to limit your post's visibility."
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