Data Researcher Demands X After Account Suspended

X is accused of deliberately suspending the account of its platform researcher (photo: twitter @lindayaX)

JAKARTA - Software Developer Travis Brown continued to fight X after the platform suspended his account. What's more, he was accused of violating company service requirements.

This all started with research he worked on on Twitter, a year before Musk bought the platform. From TechCrunch's report, Brown was working on an open source project on Twitter at the time.

However, after Musk took over Twitter, Brown changed the direction of his research. He began researching hate speech and account suspension on the Twitter platform using software he developed with the Open Knowledge Foundation.

This action is the problem with X. According to Elon Musk's company, Brown has violated the company's provisions, but Brown continues to struggle to restore his account with HateAid, a digital violence eradication organization in Germany.

Brown had won against X and his account restored for the first time, but X didn't accept the result. The company is trying to end the legal challenges they face.

To date, Brown claims that X deliberately accused himself of dangerous acts to silence various studies he conducted on the platform.

"The action of X is an attempt to silence researchers who monitor extremism and disinformation on the platform," Brown said.

The researcher firmly said that he would not stand still accepting the resistance from X. Brown will continue to collect and share data from platform X because the public needs to learn various impacts from the platform.