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5500 words to say the ad was blocked in error:

'According to X, the account had been labeled as political in 2020 "when political ads were prohibited"'(prior to Musk's takeover)

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5500 words to show how much endurance you need to get behind the auto response until X checks if they made an error.

Your version sounds like they just asked and the ban was lifted because it was an error.

That's not what happened.

This really begs the question, when they removed the policy why did they not remove all the existing blocks and labels? Sounds fishy to me.

My understanding is that there isn't an abundance of people around at Xitter these days to do that kind of due diligence. "Nobody had time to go through and unblock all the people blocked under the old policy" doesn't sound fishy to me at all.

Having lots of Chinese friends, whenever I see the letter X at the start of a word, I instinctively try to pronounce the X as a "Sh" sound. And this definitely isn't the first time this happened. Every time these Twitter/X threads comes up I have to laugh at some of these spellings :)

Ah, and now I’ll have this stuck in my head as well!

Is this the “woke mind virus”?

Likely not a reason, just a mistake.

I don't see the reason for deliberately doing it.

Happened to people still shadow banned by the twitter dick detector

Still very much needs to be discussed. Now that they've opened the can of worms of being a political entity, it most certainly was a political decision not to find cases like this within their own systems that they should know about. Are they really prepared or are they going to further cave to the Saudis?

I don’t think we should expect them to cave to the Saudis. There may be higher bidders.

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