Laura Loomer Calls Out Elon Musk’s ‘Retaliation’ After Having Her X Account Locked: ‘So Much for Free Speech’

Laura Loomer accused Elon Musk of “totalitarian” behavior after she and other critics of the X owner were stripped of their verification badges after criticizing Musk’s comments on American workers and foreign H-1B visa holders.

Loomer, a conspiracy theorist and loyal supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, was locked out of her X account and stripped of her verification badge (she has more than one million followers) after criticizing Musk. New York Young Republican Club president Gavin Wax, InfoWars host Owen Shroyer, and the pro-Trump ConservativePAC were also stripped of their verification badges.

“[Musk] is now admitting it’s retaliation,” Loomer wrote on Friday in response to a message put out by Musk.

According to Musk, accounts that are “found to be engaged in coordinated attacks to spam target accounts with mute/blocks will themselves be categorized – correctly – as spam.”

“Live by the spam, die by the spam,” he wrote.

“Translation: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes,” Mario Nawfal wrote in response, to which Musk simply said, “Yes.”

“So calling out mass migration is ‘a stupid game?'” she wrote. “So much for free speech. Quite totalitarian if you ask me.”

In an earlier post, Loomer accused Musk of targeting her for questioning his ties to China and criticizing his support for H1B visas.

“I have always been America First and a die hard supporter of President Trump and I believe that promises made should be promises kept. Donald Trump promised to remove the H1B visa program and I support his policy,” she wrote. “Now, as one of Trump’s biggest supporters, I’m having my free speech silenced by a tech billionaire for simply questioning the tech oligarchy.”

Loomer argued salaries paid under work visas are not livable wages and Musk’s stance stands against Trump’s hardline immigration promises.

Musk dismissed Loomer as simply “trolling for attention.”

“Loomer is trolling for attention. Ignore,” he wrote in a Thursday post.

Musk has found himself facing backlash from conservatives over his views on American workers. He endorsed a post that said the right is split into the “tech right” and “right right,” with the former believing Americans workers are too “retarded” to perform some tech jobs, meaning they need work visas to bring in foreign help.

The post read:

So basically the right split into two factions, tech right and right right, and the tech right is like “hey we need h-1b visa people to do the jobs,” and the right right was like “no you need to hire americans,” and the tech right is like “but you guys are retarded,” and the right right is like “well you don’t train us,” and the tech right is like “you can’t outtrain being retarded,” and while all this was going on we learned some people *really* don’t like Indians.

“That pretty much sums it up,” Musk wrote in response.