Elon Musk agreed with the tweet, saying Americans aren’t smart enough for tech jobs

Here’s a heartwarming story that should cheer you up this holiday season. the worst people you know are all fighting MAGA vs. Tech Right feud that began over Christmas over allowing skilled immigrant workers to enter the state escalated Thursday with Trump’s “first friend” calling far-right figures, including former Trump campaigner Laura Loomer, trolls and allegedly removed their verification status on Twitter.

Musk spent much of yesterday bolstering support for the H-1B visa program, which allows U.S. companies to hire noncitizens for specialized occupations and has become a favorite tool for the tech industry to attract global talent. responding in agreement to a post from Autism Capital which believed that the tech industry was not hiring Americans because “you are retarded»

That put him in the crosshairs of the nationalist right, who largely supported Trump because of his promise to limit immigration LomerInfoWars host Owen Shroyerand others have fired back at Musk and other tech-right figures like Vivek Ramaswamy for their narrow pro-immigration stance.When Musk walked away from the conversation, largely attributing it to trolling, his biggest critics also saw their profiles removed from their blue flags.

Lomer, SchroerContributor to Newsmax Gavin Waxand a political action committee Conservative OG All lost their vetting in the H-1B visa battle after openly defying Musk and friends. A decertification would cost them not only the vetting mark, but also the payouts from their attention-seeking posts and any revenue they were generating. premium subscribers who supported them.

CRUSHING.

🚨🚨🚨@elonmusk: removed my blue check in X because I dared to question his support for H1B visas, replacing American tech workers with Indian immigrants, and I questioned his relationship with China.

Looks like Elon Musk is going to shut me up… pic.twitter.com/6hvTGCEZHw

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) December 27, 2024

These accounts may have lost their verified status due to being affiliated with ConservativeOG. One way to get verified on Twitter is to be affiliated with a verified organization that used to be ConservativeOG. golden symbol once displayed on his profile. At some point ConservativeOG was axed and so was everyone associated with it. Lomer and ConservativeOG have ties, as seen in a Archived version of Loomer’s account which shows the ConservativeOG logo next to his endorsement.It’s unclear whether Loomer’s actions cost the entire organization its vetting status.

Loomer is currently in Twitter jail. suspended for 12 hours due to a post where he falsely accused Sriram Krishnan, Trump’s new political adviser on artificial intelligence, of donating to Kamala Harris’ presidential bid.

It’s worth noting that the checker purge appears to only reach those directly involved in the H-1B visa debate.The RawAlerts account, which posts almost exclusively compressed and drama-farming content lost his checkand a the number from other users have expressed concern that their verification status is being revised without an explanation as to why.

In the middle of the whole immigration cherry is Musk announced A fix to the Twitter algorithm that will downgrade posts from users who are blocked or mutedtrusted, verified subscription accounts” – a move that Loomer interpreted as attack on him because nothing ever happened that wasn’t about him.But it’s possible that the revision of the checkmarks is related to the adjustment of the algorithm.

Regardless, Musk’s goodwill with MAGA loyalists appears to be waning. Clearly, Musk and other techies who have decided to stick with Trump are trying to turn the page and put the H-1B debate behind them, potentially leaving. so far that they are trying to bury the accounts leading the opposition. But the far right has only dug in its heels following the move of the shadow de-verification. Let they all lose.