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X Accused of Suspending Hundreds of LGBTQ Profiles
KESQ that the company’s several dozen accounts on X, including members of its #ILoveGay network, were all taken down at the same time without warning.“I got this flood of emails from my followers, and I’m like, ‘What is happening?’ At the end of the day, we still don’t exactly know what’s going on,” he said.In a July 9 post on Pink Media’s website, Skallerud wrote that the mass suspension was due to what X claimed was a “user report” that claimed the accounts “had broken one of the X rules.”“Which rule we may have violated remains a mystery, but 5 days later, we are still down with no hopes of having our X profiles reinstated,” he wrote.Brad Fuhr, CEO of radio station KGAY and the Gay Desert Guide, reportedly received a message from X telling him that several accounts he ran — including accounts dedicated to promoting LGBTQ spaces in the Coachella Valley and promoting the area as a potential attraction for tourists — had been permanently banned.“Our digital marketing agency Oasis Marketing Group, ‘OMG PSP,‘ that one was suspended,” Fuhr told KESQ. “And then we noticed, of course, that the ‘I Love Gay Palm Springs’ account was also suspended [in addition to Gay Desert Guide].