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Elon Musk Pledges to Spend First Day as Twitter Boss Helping User Named Catturd

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The MAGA-affiliated user claimed their account had been suppressed.

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Elon Musk ascended the throne at Twitter on Thursday, and after swiftly axing the company’s top leadership, he tweeted, “the bird is freed.” His very next message: pledging to assist an account named @catturd2, which claimed to have been “shadowbanned, ghostbanned, [and] searchbanned” under the former regime.

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