Twitter appeared to limit the reach of investigative news site Bellingcat days after Elon Musk suggested its Texas mall shooter investigation was a 'psyop'

Fri, 05/12/2023 - 07:52

Elon Musk wearing white tie at the Met Gala and Eliot Higgins, the Bellingcat founder, at a press conference. — Elon Musk and Eliot Higgins, the Bellingcat founder.
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The investigative news website Bellingcat reported on the Texas mall shooter's apparent neo-Nazi beliefs.
Right-wing commentators on Twitter suggested that it was fake news, and Elon Musk called it a "psyop."
Days later, Bellingcat's founder said its Twitter account no longer appeared in the app's search tool.

Twitter appears to have limited the reach of Bellingcat, an investigative news website, as its main account no longer appears in the app's search tool.