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  • Anti-fascist activist Chad Loder's Twitter account was suspended in November 2022.
  • A leaked internal Twitter message suggests Elon Musk directly ordered the suspension.
  • Bloomberg reported the internal message as saying: "Suspension: direct request from Elon Musk."

A leaked internal Twitter message appears to show that Elon Musk directly ordered staff to suspend a left-wing activist's account on the social-media platform.

Bloomberg said it viewed a screenshot of the message in question, involving the account of Chad Loder, which read: "Suspension: direct request from Elon Musk."