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Photojournalist Pete Souza was suspended from X (#Twitter) today for posting a photograph of former President Trump that was published by the Associated Press. The photograph showed Trump's seemingly undamaged ear.

This man has twice worked in the White House as the official photographers of both Ronald Reagan and Barrack Obama. He is a respected professional photojournalist.

Edit: minor fixes

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Sou

#politics #uspol #journalism #Press #photojournalism #Trump #elonmusk
27 July at 20:18 | Open on mastodon.social
31 comments
Jackie (aka Queen Antifa) 🌹:debian_logo:​:linux:

@ParanoidFactoid it was teleprompter glass confirmed

27 July at 20:26 | Open on tech.lgbt
Paranoid Factoid

@burnoutqueen I honestly don't know what hit Trump. But I do know Elon's Twitter is censoring one of the top photojournalists in the industry.

27 July at 20:28 | Open on mastodon.social
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@ParanoidFactoid
Like the saints of old! A miracle, the uncorrupted ear of #Trump

27 July at 20:28 | Open on mastodon.social
Steven van der Vlist 🍋

@ParanoidFactoid That's some absolute freedom of speech Space Karen is providing there...

27 July at 20:32 | Open on mastodon.social
Rob van Kan

@ParanoidFactoid Mediaite has it that he took it down himself, and that his was a "conspiracy theory". No explanation for the remarkably pristine ear.
mediaite.com/news/look-closely

27 July at 20:33 | Open on mastodon.social
Paranoid Factoid

@edgeofeurope Where in the Mediaite report does it say Souza took the photograph down himself? I don't see that.

I saw his account get nuked real time.

27 July at 20:37 | Open on mastodon.social
Rob van Kan

@ParanoidFactoid "Pete Souza, ... , seemingly deleted his X (formerly Twitter) account" right atr the beginning

27 July at 20:38 | Open on mastodon.social
Paranoid Factoid

@edgeofeurope "Seemingly"

Or X deleted the account, which seems far more likely to me.

EDIT: Screenshot of article added.
27 July at 20:39 | Open on mastodon.social
cratermoon

@ParanoidFactoid That's T's left ear. The photo is flopped horizontally. Unflopped it looks like:
27 July at 20:39 | Open on zirk.us
Vanni Di Ponzano ⁂🚴 ❤️ ☕ 🍎

@ParanoidFactoid

he should post here. I would like to enlarge that photo...

27 July at 20:52 | Open on mastodon.social
Kierkrampusgaanks regretfully

@ParanoidFactoid If it turns out they actually did set up the kid to get shot by secret service snipers, do you think anyone will answer for the murder?

27 July at 20:57 | Open on beige.party
Strange Culprits

@ParanoidFactoid @KydiaMusic
Yo Elon, shadowbanning the truth from your turd of a platform won't save your sinking ass. Behold! That great sucking sound is all the money you're wasting propping up old stanky short eyes, a.k.a. #JohnDoe174

27 July at 21:03 | Open on universeodon.com
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@ParanoidFactoid At this point the phrase "suspended from X" begins to have the same ring to it than saying "suspended from 4chan". Which usually results in 2 questions:

- Why was he (still) using that site?
- What did he expect?

27 July at 21:06 | Open on soc.k512.studio
Haskell-🌊 For Harris/Walz 🌊
jsj

@ParanoidFactoid Something something leopards eating faces something

27 July at 21:17 | Open on tech.lgbt
Hot Dog Water

@ParanoidFactoid

Trump wasn't shot.
He'd be selling 1000 bullet-laden trinkets and Nazi baubles of it if he did.

Trumpverse knows if they push too hard to fight to support that he was shot, they'll get exposed and he'll become an instant baby-wuss to his ridiculous cult.

THIS will be the one lie that could break him. And media is cool backing him.

No merch, no bullet. Simple math.

27 July at 21:18 | Open on mstdn.plus
Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:

@ParanoidFactoid When I went to AP to fact check it, I found apnews.com/article/fact-check-

I think that's not the photo Souza posted, but I'm unable to find the one in your screenshot on APnews.com

27 July at 21:25 | Open on infosec.exchange
Cindy Weinstein

@ParanoidFactoid. Musk read Orwell and thought what a great idea. He gets an F.

27 July at 21:40 | Open on mastodon.world
Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe

@ParanoidFactoid Pete Souza has my undying loyalty for his unflinching photographs of former White House physician Ronny Jackson, aka Candyman. It didn’t stop Jackson from being hoisted on us as a Congressman, but at least we know

27 July at 21:44 | Open on denton.social
Liz Dylan

@ParanoidFactoid

Elon Musk the Anti Censorship Savior censored a respected photojournalist.

Hypocrisy at its best.

27 July at 21:45 | Open on mastodon.social
Breathe

@ParanoidFactoid everyone knows that Lizard People regrow their appendages rapidly. Didn't you ever watch infowars?😂

27 July at 21:49 | Open on mstdn.social
David Scott Moyer
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺
John Mastodone indeed!

@ParanoidFactoid Go ahead, believe the compulsive liar and his excellent tissue-scaring skills

27 July at 21:56 | Open on mastodon.social
J.Sʜᴀʀᴘ🌍🇺🇦Fʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ&Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ

@ParanoidFactoid

Not suspended - terminated!

Killed off.

27 July at 22:05 | Open on mstdn.social
Paranoid Factoid

@JSharp1436 That may be correct. We've seen Twitter rescind these sorts of permabans when the company realizes the kind of bad PR a move like this fosters. I think it's possible he'll be reinstated. But I also think this is one if many mask off moments for the site, showing overt bias for a candidate and the owner's political cause.

27 July at 22:07 | Open on mastodon.social
T_X

@ParanoidFactoid I wanted to search for "X" on this Wikipedia page and realized once more what a stupid idea it was to rename a brand to a single letter...

27 July at 22:05 | Open on chaos.social
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