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I don't think you read the article thoroughly. They note more people saw them. Also the headline is accurate, it is why the account was banned and the designation is explained in the article.

I'm sick of internet nihilists muddying the water and making useless noise.

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Musk said the images were never shown to users. Source:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1684248597603155976

Although in retrospect I guess my bad for believing what he said once.

The article quotes that tweet in the third paragraph. It doesn't link to the tweet, but the contents of the tweet are included word-for-word.

And then in the next paragraph the article notes the view and retweet counts that the tweet received (as read from a cached version of the tweet).

Egg on my face. Etc.

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