Yulia Navalnaya’s account on X (formerly Twitter) was briefly suspended a day after she used the platform to vow to continue her husband’s campaigning.
On Monday, she posted a video promising to fight for a „free Russia”, days after Alexei Navalny’s death in a Russian prison was confirmed.
On Tuesday afternoon her account was briefly not accessible to users.
In a statement, X said it was blocked „mistakenly” due to a system „error”.
Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation had earlier tagged Elon Musk in a post to ask „exactly which rules were violated” by Navalnaya. Accounts of Navalny’s allies, such as spokesperson Kira Yarmysh, did not appear to have been affected.
A post on the site’s official safety account read: „Our platform’s defense mechanism against manipulation and spam mistakenly flagged @yulia_navalnaya as violating our rules.
„We unsuspended the account as soon as we became aware of the error, and will be updating the defense.”
Navalnaya, who generally kept a low profile throughout her late husband’s campaigning, only created an account on X on Monday.
In a video message posted the same day, Navalnaya accused Russian authorities of waiting for traces of the deadly nerve agent Novichok to disappear from her husband’s body before releasing it to his family. The Kremlin said the accusation was unfounded and an investigation into his death was ongoing.
The emotional video statement, in which her voice could be heard to shake with grief and anger, was widely shared by other users.
Her account has amassed more than 100,000 followers since it was created.
According to X’s guidelines, accounts can be suspended for posting spam or abuse, or if the security of an account is at risk.
The Kremlin has rejected allegations, with the Russian foreign ministry calling the reaction from political leaders „self-exposing”, given that no forensic medical examination has yet been made available.
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