Vice President JD Vance was suspended from the left-leaning social media platform Bluesky on Wednesday, simply minutes after becoming a member of and sharing his first publish.
“Hello Bluesky, I’ve been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis,” Vance wrote in his first publish on the X competitor. “So I’m thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.”
The vice chairman went on to weigh in on the Supreme Court docket’s ruling that upheld Tennessee’s restrictions on transgender medical remedies for minors.
“To that end, I found Justice [Clarence] Thomas’s concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating,” Vance wrote, together with a screenshot of the conservative justice’s assertion agreeing with the 6-3 ruling.
“He argues that many of our so-called ‘experts’ have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth,” the vice chairman continued. “I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids.”
“What do you think?”
Inside 12 minutes of the publish, and Vance asserting on X that he had joined the platform, his Bluesky account was suspended, in line with Axios journalist Marc Caputo.
“Not found. Account has been suspended,” learn a message on Vance’s Bluesky web page.
The ban was temporary, because the vice chairman’s account was reinstated simply minutes later.
It doesn’t seem that the vice chairman’s publish ran afoul of any of Bluesky’s group pointers.
Bluesky launched as a decentralized social media various after Elon Musk purchased and took over what was then Twitter.
It noticed large progress within the aftermath of President Trump’s 2024 election win — with its person base tripling from 10 million to 30 million between November 2024 and Might 2025, in line with the Pew Analysis Heart.
Liberal-leaning X customers flocked to the platform, apparently in the hunt for a extra ideologically aligned setting, and a number of other customers commenting on Vance’s Bluesky publish appeared angered that he had joined the platform.
“Don’t just block. Report the account and the posts,” one particular person fumed.
One other famous that they’d “reported” the vice chairman’s publish “for misinformation.”
Bluesky, nevertheless, claimed Vance’s account was suspended over considerations it was run by an impersonator of the vice chairman, not due to his publish.
“Vice President Vance’s account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts which have targeted public figures like him in the past. The account was quickly restored and verified so people can easily confirm its authenticity,” a spokesperson for the corporate stated. “We welcome the Vice President to join the conversation on Bluesky.”
