@shadowferret @SoyMagnus

> Of course the journos will claim that wasn't what they were doing and it's hard to prove intent without hard evidence. (at least in a court of law)

Yeah, but you can establish intent, there are bars for it, depending on the crime; I am more shaky on civil suits but the burden of proof is much lower for those. Why do you say that, like are they threatening to sue?

> It really wouldn't surprise me if they did it to get themselves banned on purpose and use it as ammo to smear Elon as well as remove themselves from the platform before they got banned for something else that would be far harder to turn into a virtue signal.

Reasonable. That's happened on FSE a lot of times.