Twitter censors Grabien Media founder Tom Elliott for calling out a racist tweet that the platform has not removed: Tom Elliott, founder of Grabien Media, tweeted that Twitter had suspended him for a nearly year-old tweet. He said that he "was criticizing a blatantly racist tweet from @TheRoot." The tweet Elliott was responding to showed a still-frame from a CBS This Morning story, with a banner reading "Atlanta shooting rampage. Motive unknown, fears attacks linked to crimes against Asian Americans." The tweet was from March 17, 2021, and the image was of the Gold Spa. The Root tweet that accompanied this still-frame read: "Whiteness Is a Pandemic." The tweet linked to an article on The Root's web site with the same title that was an anti-white racist screed that ultimately claimed that the only cure for the "virus" of white supremacy is "to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it" after spending three-quarters of the article equating white supremacy and whiteness. In responding to this racist tweet, Elliott sarcastically said, "If we simply kill all of the white people, surely then all of our problems will go away." Twitter claimed that this tweet violated its "hateful conduct," and forced him to delete the tweet in order to regain access to his account. Elliott reported that he appealed the censorship instead of deleting the tweet, noting that he was "actually calling out hateful conduct through this thing Twitter's humorless scolds don't understand called sarcasm." He reported later that "Twitter has just informed me that my appeal was rejects. Unsurprisingly The Root's actually racist & abusive tweet remains up." It seems that Twitter has since removed The Root's tweet.