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They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed


Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.

“This is working against the type of environment that he claimed he wanted to build,” said Ari Cohn, the lead counsel for technology policy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a free speech advocacy group. Like Ms. Loupis, Laura Loomer is used to picking fights on X as a far-right influencer who has gained over a million followers spreading falsehoods, conspiracy theories and racism, branding herself as an unflinching ally of Mr. Trump. To identify these three accounts, The Times used a service that collects data from X to analyze views for dozens of users involved in various feuds with Mr. Musk for changes in their daily impressions.

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