by Baruch Green in VIN News
(VINnews) — The X account of Motti Seligson, the Media Director of Chabad.org, has been suspended by the social media platform. Seligson is being accused of violating X’s policies, over a non-controversial post he wrote discussing the horrific pogroms in Amsterdam.
In fact, the X post in question was a peaceful call for violence to be stopped.
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Although Seligson’s account is still visible, his account has been locked, meaning that he is not able to post anything new, and his ‘incriminating’ post has ben hidden.
Seligson appealed the decision, but was informed by the platform that the support team upheld the initial decision to lock his account. (It is not clear at this point what specific violations they feel he committed, or whether they informed him at all.) Rabbi Yaakov Menken, the Managing Director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, called attention to the suspension / locking.
Seligson’s ‘violation’ post read: ‘Jews being brutally attacked on the streets of Amsterdam. Run down by terrorists in cars, lynched by mobs, stabbings. This kind of thing has not been seen on those streets since the 1930’s. Local heroic Jews from Chabad are rescuing people…”
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