The Twitter account belonging to comic Kathy Griffin was suspended on Sunday after she modified the identify and picture of her verified profile to Elon Musk.
Musk, 51, formally bought Twitter in October for US$44 billion.
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In direct defiance of the brand new Twitter proprietor’s claims that each one accounts impersonating another person — with out clear point out of the account being a parody — could be suspended, Griffin, 62, mocked Musk.
With Musk’s identify and picture, she urged Americans to guard abortion rights and vote for the Democratic Party within the upcoming U.S. midterm elections. (On Monday, Musk inspired his followers to vote Republican.)
“Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended,” Musk decreed on Sunday.
He claimed earlier than his takeover, accounts had been “issued a warning before suspension,” however that this is able to now not be the case.
Following his tweets, Griffin, posing as Musk, wrote, “I’ve decided that voting blue for their choice is only right.”
It shouldn’t be clear if Griffin’s suspension was because of her impersonation of Musk.
Griffin didn’t cease after her account was suspended, both; as a substitute, the comic logged into her late mom’s account and tweeted “#FreeKathy.”
Also on Sunday, Musk responded on Twitter to stories that Griffin’s account had been suspended. In jest, Musk wrote that Griffin was “suspended for impersonating a comedian.”
He claimed she may have her account again for $8, the soon-to-be price of a blue verified checkmark on Twitter.
Using her late mom’s profile, Griffin responded to Musk’s tweets. She known as Musk an “a—hole” and a “hack.”
“Please do a better job running this company. It used to mean something,” she wrote earlier than signing off as “KG.”
On Monday, Griffin saved up the joke. She claimed to be Maggie Griffin contacting Musk “from the spirit world.”
“This is not a parody. This is the actual ghost of Kathy Griffin’s boxed wine loving mother saying I’m gonna get tipsy and throw my bingo cards at you,” Griffin wrote.
Griffin shouldn’t be the one individual to have their account suspended for impersonating Musk.
Comedian Sarah Silverman claimed her account was locked when she modified her identify and picture to Musk and tweeted, “I am a freedom of speech absolutist and I eat doody for breakfast every day.”
YouTuber (and well-known web troll) Ethan Klein additionally claimed his account was suspended for impersonating Musk. In a TikTook video posted late Sunday, Klein playfully lamented that he was “permanently banned on Twitter by the supposed free speech warrior, Elon Musk.”
With his identify and picture modified to Musk, Klein tweeted: “Even though Jeffrey Epstein committed horrible crimes, I do still miss him on nights like this for his warmth and comradery [sic]. Rest in peace old friend.”
Two extra accounts individually claiming to be American conservative journalist and right-wing influencer Andy Ngo and actor Keanu Reeves had been additionally suspended.
As of this writing, the back-and-forth continues.
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