Twitter Locks WikiLeaks and Multiple WikiLeaks Staff Accounts

Update from Wikileaks: "Our twitter account @WikiLeaks is now unlocked. Thanks to those who made a fuss and for @Jack and others responding to the problem. It appears that a denial of service attack had been run against several WikiLeaks and Assange legal accounts to trigger looping security lockouts."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1075946430844583938

Still don't understand why upvoting behaves so differently here on HN. This post received 25 points within an hour, but never reached the first page. There are other posts on the first page with far fewer points. Can anyone shed any light on that? Genuinely curious.

I find it equally likely there's an undisclosed request from the DoJ involving their accounts -- and that they're trying to get a narrative out before something like indictments come out.

There's a lot of very clear slant in this article.

It leaves unanswered the question why a front laundering Russian intelligence should expect to be allowed to operate on a US platform.