On Monday, July 21st, Instagram temporarily suspended the account of Zohran Mamdani, a New York State Assembly member and NYC mayoral candidate. The suspension, which lasted approximately 3 hours b…
nycjournals.com seems to be an influence operation. The domain is a month old and the about section contains nothing that actually tells you anything about what’s behind the site.
edit: That means this is likely a false story unless corroborated by another source.
Can’t find any other reporting on his account being temporarily blocked from anywhere else
Site is even more suspicious than just being really new. nycjournals.com/blog/ has a link in “First time to the site? Start here” that goes to a page on financialbureau.org which is a dead site. Pulling it up in archive.org shows an almost identical site layout also with no real information on who’s behind it
nycjournals.com seems to be an influence operation. The domain is a month old and the about section contains nothing that actually tells you anything about what’s behind the site.
edit: That means this is likely a false story unless corroborated by another source.
Thank you for calling this out
Can’t find any other reporting on his account being temporarily blocked from anywhere else
Site is even more suspicious than just being really new. nycjournals.com/blog/ has a link in “First time to the site? Start here” that goes to a page on financialbureau.org which is a dead site. Pulling it up in archive.org shows an almost identical site layout also with no real information on who’s behind it
Seconded. This “news” is not being reported by anyone else in the mainstream media.
And the account is working now so they supposedly risked giant shit show just to suspend it for a day? BS.
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Who’s behind it I wonder