Earlier this month, National Review reported that Twitter suspended six accounts affiliated with Optimum Publishing International, including Optimum’s main account and five others promoting its books. For the unfamiliar, this isn’t some random conspiracy peddler. Optimum is a highly-respected Canadian indie publisher that’s operated for over 50 years.
Their recent titles include investigative reporter Sam Cooper’s Wilful Blindness, which seeks to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Canadian politicians to account for the criminal network of CCP agents, narcos, and tycoons that’s infiltrated the West, and professor of public ethics Clive Hamilton’s Hidden Hand, which critiques how the CCP aims to reshape the world in its image. The Hidden Hand promotional account was one of the six suspended without explanation.