A brief summary of the MAGA Civil War:
On December 22, Trump appointed Sriram Krishnan as a senior adviser on artificial intelligence. Sriram Krishnan is a naturalized citizen who initially came to the United States from India on a work visa that he obtained through Microsoft.
Previously, Krishnan worked as a general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz and served as its ambassador to Twitter after Musk's acquisition, which was partially financed by Marc Andreessen.
Krishnan is the latest Trump appointee drawn from a group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists who call themselves "Little Tech," mostly in the orbit of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
This appointment drew widespread criticism from pro-Trump influencers over previous statements by Krishnan in support of increasing the cap on greencards.
The "Little Tech" or "Tech Bro" faction, including Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, David Sacks, and Sean Maguire, rallied to Krishnan's defense on X, voicing support for high-skilled legal immigration and accusing his detractors of being motivated by racism.
Yesterday and today, the brand accounts "
@ConservativeOGs" and "
@ProjectGroyp" were stripped of their verification and features, subsequently their affiliate accounts lost their verification and features like increased character limit.
Earlier today, many of the affiliate accounts under the brand "
@ProjectGroyp," including Dalton Clodfelter, Tyler Russell, Ray, ClassicsGroyp, KaizerRev, Pinesap, and Bookcat, were permanently suspended.
At the same time that the suspensions occurred, Elon posted that "reply spammers" were being nuked as he composed the post.
@ProjectGroyp received an email from X saying that the account was unverified for engaging in platform manipulation.
Earlier tonight, Elon posted that, being an H-1B immigrant himself, he would "go to war" against anyone who opposes the H-1B program.
This is an extremely disturbing and unfortunate development.
