Americans for Legal Immigrants PAC (ALIPAC) censors ads by Elon Musk’s X/Twitter promoting new website and forum section aimed at documenting noncitizen and illegal immigrant voters As a result, they withdrew their support for the platform.
April 17th, ALIPAC issues a press release announces the creation of NonCitizenVoters.com, a website dedicated to collecting documents for noncitizen and illegal immigrant voters. The purpose of this site is to assist the media, legislators, candidates, and voters in addressing this recognized national problem. However, an X/Twitter ad promoting the press release and information quickly garnered 44,000 views but was censored and shut down by Elon Musk’s company.
LUKEVILLE, AZ – DECEMBER 7: Immigrants from the West African country of Guinea pose in celebration after safely crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on December 7, 2023 in Lukeville, Arizona. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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ALIPAC spokesperson William Geen said: post: “Today, we published a Twitter email declaring that noncitizens and illegal immigrant voters who have committed felonies are a ‘protected group’ of Promoting documents and sources that prove what is considered to be “hate speech/hate content” will be blocked. ”
of Release and post Both X/Twitter and Facebook were flooded with comments claiming that anyone concerned about the issue of illegal immigrant voters is lying and racist. ALIPAC notified its national network of activists and encouraged them to respond to the vandalism with links and citations.
ALIPAC believes many of the commenters are online trolls, calling them “China trolls” or “laughing trolls.” According to ALIPAC, these trolls are hired by unknown payers to attack people in groups, use the same language, and target low visibility and shadowbanned accounts such as @ALIPAC . According to ALIPAC, these trolls don’t seem to have much understanding of basic English or the issue at hand. They react very quickly to specific content. This suggests that people are searching the platform to find targeted content about immigration, Ukraine, and other related topics.
When ALIPAC challenged X/Twitter’s censorship of its ads and asked why it was censored, Twitter initially said: “Our team manually reviews your content and We have determined that it violates our Hateful Content Policy…hate speech or advocacy against protected groups, individuals, or organizations.” However, voting as a non-citizen violates American election law. When asked where it says that people of many races who commit felonies in China are a protected group, Twitter changed its stance and said the ad was not allowed to advertise political content. He claimed to be targeting the country.
ALIPAC, a registered political action committee, responded: recent articles in guardian Twitter says it allows advertising for U.S. political candidates and political parties. They asked for clarification as to whether Twitter/X’s current political content policy prohibits political advertising in the United States or whether it should be changed to allow advertising only within the United States.
Twitter did not respond, instead repeating its claim that the ad violated its “hate speech” rules.
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Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering free speech and online censorship issues.
