MAGA civil war ramps up as Trump ally Laura Loomer lays into Elon Musk — and loses her blue check

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Another volley has been fired in the ongoing MAGA civil war that’s been playing out online between hardcore “America First” acolytes and Trump-backing Silicon Valley oligarchs over an immigrant worker visa program — and now Elon Musk is being accused of personally punishing his critics. I guess he doesn’t really believe in Free speech after all.” The failed Republican congressional candidate wasn’t the only “OG MAGA” critic of Musk’s who said they suddenly saw their X account privileges stripped amid the Trump coalition rift over high-skilled immigrant workers. Odd.” Loomer also pushed back on claims from Musk allies that her verification had been temporarily removed because she had changed her profile picture, calling it “a lie by X to cover up the fact that they just nuked the checkmark on my account and my subscriptions because I dared to criticize H1B visas today.” Additionally, during a X Spaces conversation which featured a number of other accounts who lost their verifications, Loomer said X locked her account for 12 hours because she shared private information. While Musk has not responded directly to the claims he stripped Loomer and others of their X privileges, he did tweet on Thursday night that “any accounts found to be engaged in coordinated attacks to spam target accounts with mute/blocks will themselves be categorized — correctly — as spam.” X Spaces host and Musk acolyte Mario Nawfal claimed that the world’s richest man was essentially saying “play stupid games, win stupid prizes,” prompting Musk to agree with him.