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Black journalist blocked by Twitter after criticizing founder

Jason Whitlock is a black American sports journalist, television personality, radio host and ‘podcaster’. Very early in his career, his carried and passionate chronicles about sport earned him the prestigious “Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for CommentaryIn 2007. He is the only sports writer to have won the award. Recently, the journalist saw his account on the social network with the blue bird, suspended. And the reason would be, a criticism that the journalist would have made on the recent real estate acquisition of one of the founders of the Movement ‘’Black Lives Matters’’(BLM).

Blocked “for disclosure of personal information”

It was Friday that the journalist found that he could no longer access his Twitter account. Contacted, the blue bird network had informed him that he had been blocked, for violating the network’s privacy policy. The account of Jason Whitlock, had been suspended for having ” disclosed personal information To another network user. And this other user, is Patrisse Cullors, 37, African American artist and activist, considered one of the co-founders of the movement ‘’Black Lives Matters’’.

And ” personal information “Mentioned on Twitter, it would be the fact for the journalist to have responded on the network to a publication of New York Post showing the surprising recent real estate acquisitions of Cullors. In his commentary, Jason Whitlock, included a link to the real estate website which first reported the details of the real estate acquisition.

According to the American press, Patrisse Cullors, had made several purchases of real estate during his last years. Purchases including a 3.2 acre property in Georgia paid $ 145,000 and recently a house of 1,4 million de dollars at The Angels. Acquisitions that had raised questions even as questions emerged about how the movement ‘’Black Lives Matter’’ (BLM) managed the funds he collected. In 2020, it was no less than $ 90 million that the movement had raised.

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