Navalny’s Wife Gets Blocked on Twitter as His Mom Confronts Putin
The widow of Putin foe Alexei Navalny was temporarily booted from X shortly after using the platform to vow to continue her husband’s fight against Vladimir Putin.
Yulia Navalnaya shared her first post on the platform Monday, and less than 24 hours later her account had been suspended for supposedly “violating the X rules.” Her account appeared to have been reinstated a short time later, with the platform saying it had been taken offline as the result of a simple error.
“Our platform’s defense mechanism against manipulation and spam mistakenly flagged @yulia_navalnaya as violating our rules,” X’s safety team wrote in a statement. “We unsuspended the account as soon as we became aware of the error, and will be updating the defense.”