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Nov 17, 2025
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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Nov 17 – Twitter became X and still Inner City Press used it to report on trials, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, and on the United Nations, and banks behaving badly including Bank of America being sued for enable Jeffrey Epstein.

Then, the day before among other things the Epstein files vote in Congress, Inner City Press lost control of its X account, and for hours X “Support” did nothing.

It became with an email, seemingly from X, alleging a copyright violation for using a UN photo of Antonio Guterres. Soon the account - with over 379,000 followers, many of them paid, for extra - had its password changed.

A complaint to X through a form resulted in an email - which said, it appears ou still have control of the account.

But this was demonstrably false.

One reply email to X, then more, went unanswered. The form initially used now said, your request is queue, then “something went wrong, try again later.”

Yes, something has gone wrong.

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