The Kimberley Prospector

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Twitter’s Unspoken Censoring of South African News Publishers

Twitter’s Unspoken Censoring of South African News Publishers

It has been almost three weeks since the Kimberley Prospector’s Twitter account was suspended on 15 March 2023, and the appeal, emails and tweets sent have yet to be answered. This is a troubling reality for South African news publishers, as it is likely that Twitter’s refusal to reinstate the account is an indication of […]

Twitter Suspends Community Newspaper’s Twitter Profile

Twitter Suspends Community Newspaper’s Twitter Profile

The Kimberley Prospector, a local community newspaper in Kimberley in the Northern Cape of South Africa, is the latest to have its Twitter account suspended. The suspension was confirmed via Twitter’s e-mail notification, which stated that the account, @KBYzaNet, had violated their rules against platform manipulation and spam. The Kimberley Prospector maintains that they did […]

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