Elon Musk once again promises a doxxing ‘crackdown’ on X/Twitter

[D. Ray]

San Francisco, California – Tech billionaire Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX,
Tesla, and X, formerly Twitter, once again vowed to crackdown on accounts
accused of doxxing on Tuesday.

In a post made to his personal @elonmusk account, the “aspirationally
Jewish” tech billionaire clarified that under his watch, even mentioning
the real name behind an anonymous account on X/Twitter would be met with an
account suspension.

“Any doxxing, which includes revealing real names, will result in account
suspension,” said Musk in a lengthy X/Twitter thread.

“Many would lose their job or worse if they posted under their real name.
That is why we take real name doxxing very seriously,” he continued.

His apparent promise to suspend doxxing accounts would be the second time
he has done so in recent years.

Doxxing, a strategy largely adopted by bad actors to smear, defame, or
discourage political organizing out of fear of personal details becoming
leaked, has always held a firm foothold on Twitter. Since its inception,
anti-White extremists, journalists, and others have used the platform to
maliciously dox hundreds, if not thousands of private citizens, with the
sole intent of causing punishment in “revenge.”

Elon’s words proved to be a welcome relief to many victims, hoping to see
their doxxes expunged from the site, and their abusers suspended.

“That’s great. I’m gonna start reporting a lot of known doxxers on this
app. Let’s see if they get suspended,” said one user in reply.

Many X/Twitter users, however, appeared to remain skeptical. According to
them, Musk’s promises felt empty after valid reports to X’s moderation team
were denied.

“Love the platform, but these concerns are real and it doesn’t seem like
you are following through on your promise to remove doxxers. Is the process
for removing people lengthy? How can you optimize the process?” asked one
Twitter user.

“Please actually do what you say you’re doing to do for once. Many of us
have been doxxed and @X and @Support have don(e) nothing about it,” pleaded
one user.

“I’ve literally been doxxed with my name, address and phone number 300+
times in the last year. Every single report is rejected,” said another
user. “I don’t believe it. I report far-left accounts (that) post people
names, employers, pics, etc and they are never held accountable,” said
another.

Musk’s recent statements constitute his latest effort to appease users
disturbed by doxxing on the platform. In December of 2022, Musk drew
international attention after he temporarily banned the accounts of several
prominent journalists for promoting an account that provided live updates
of his exact whereabouts.

“You dox, you get suspended. End of story. That’s it,” asserted Musk.

Despite many believing his comments at the time would result in a blanket
suspension of malicious accounts, the ban waves users clamored for never
came. Since the incident unfolded, doxxing as a phenomenon has only
intensified on X/Twitter, with Musk's non-muscular response to the issue
resulting in a safe space for abusers to victimize.

To this day, many accounts—especially those belonging to members of the
anti-White extremism movement, commonly referred to as "Antifa"—continue
dox private individuals completely unabated. Some of these accounts include
Canary Mission collaborator, Talia Jane, Late Night AFA, Sunlight
Anti-fascist Action, PBDoxxer, UTR Research, and the Antifa gossip blog,
Idavox, among dozens of others.

One of the only times an account did receive a permanent ban for "doxxing"
from Elon Musk's Twitter—which includes a full ban on directly linking to
its website—was the Justice Report. The heavy-handed moderation came
immediately after a team of counter-extremism researchers revealed the
identity of the person responsible for a lion's share of Twitter's
malicious doxxing, the Anonymous Comrade Collective, in 2022.

Using publically available information, researchers and independent
journalists unmasked disgraced Boston Globe journalist and
Massassachusets-based private investigator, Hilary Elizabeth Sargent of
Roslindale, as the woman behind the group's formation and social media
posts. Just before the exposé was released, Sargent had scrubbed hundreds
of posts from her public @lilsarg account and changed her profile picture
to a black field, implying guilt.

In the aftermath of the discovery, the Justice Report was immediately shut
out of public discourse and removed from Twitter, despite having never
revealed the individual's residential information or exact location. The
account is still active to this day.

While it is currently unknown if Musk plans to finally take action against
doxxing, some, like nationalist influencer Keith Woods, have called on
their sizable follower base to report as many Antifa doxxing accounts as
possible. On Telegram, he boosted Musk's post, and urged others to "spread
them around" and "get involved."

"Elon Musk says name doxxing will result in suspension," said Woods on his
personal Telegram. "Now is the time to report as many antifa doxxing
accounts as you can. Spread them around, get others involved."

Since his purchase of Twitter, the everyday comings, goings, and posts made
by tech billionaire Elon Musk have generated countless headlines. In
January, Musk—ironically—took to Twitter to call for the doxxing of the
pro-White street activist group, Patriot Front, breathing air into the
tired conspiracy that the group is composed of active federal agents.

The demand would be the second time in recent memory Musk called for
Patriot Front's malicious doxxing, and came just before a highly publicized
trip to Auschwitz with fellow Zionist conservative, Ben Shapiro.

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