Twitter on Thursday accounts suspended of Many prominent journalists who He recently wrote about Elon Musk’s company new The owner, after the billionaire tweeted that journalists are subject to the same laws against Expose the character information.
Reply to a tweet on account suspension, mask, who Describing himself as an authoritarian of free speech, he tweeted: “Same defamation rules It applies to “journalists” as it applies to everyone else,” he said, referring to Twitter rules Sharing ban of Personal informationcalled doxxing.
Musk’s tweet referenced Twitter’s comment on Wednesday of elonjet, an account that tracks its location private Jet in real time using data available in The public Domain. Musk threatened legal action against account operator, saying to him son He was mistakenly followed by a “crazy stalker”.
It was not clear if all of the journalists whose accounts were suspended have been suspended on or shared news about elonjet.
“Criticizing me all day is totally fine, but letting go real-time location And endanger my country family Not so,” Musk tweeted on Thursday.
he tweeted last The month of his commitment to freedom of speech extended “Even to not block the account that follows my plane, even if it is directly personal safety risk. “
chirp on Thursday that there will be a seven-day suspension for doxxing, next up with A survey asking Twitter users to do so vote on When are doxxed accounts reinstated.
Then he said he offered too much options on poll and will return it afterwards results Show that about 43% voted for Re-accounts “now” – the largest share for Which option.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The comment echoed the chaotic actions on Twitter since Musk took overincluding rapid-fire operations of senior management and thousands of Staff, seesaw on how much to charge for Twitter Blue subscription service, returning blocked accounts, incl of former President Donald Trump.
Twitter is now tilting hard on Moderate automation contentget rid of with Some manual revisions and preferred limitations on distribution rather than explicitly removing some of the speech, it is new head of Confidence and safety, Ella Irwin told Reuters this month.
‘Doubtful and unfortunate’
Among the accounts of suspended journalists on On Thursday that was it of Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell (@drewharwell), who Wrote on social media Mastodon platform he recently wrote about Musk and posted Links to “public availabledata obtained legally.
Twitter also suspended official the account of Mastodon (joinmastodon), which appeared as an alternative to Twitter. Mastodon cannot be accessed immediately for comment.
Sally Buzby, executive editor of The Post, said Harwell’s comment undermined Musk’s claims that he intended to run Twitter as a platform dedicated to freedom of expression.
However, Harwell was able to speak on Twitter conversation spaces with Fellow journalists late on Thursday night, a conversation Musk briefly dropped in on.
“You’re sorry, you are suspended. The end.” of story Musk said on Chat where Harwell declined to confirm that he exposed Musk real-time locationsaying it was simply posted about elonjet.
Twitter updated that it policy on Wed ban participation of “live location information. “
the accounts of Times reporter Ryan Mack (@rmac18), CNN correspondent Donnie O’Sullivan (@donie), and Mashable correspondent Matt Binder were also suspended, as that was of Freelance journalist Arun Ropar (@atrupar), who Covers the United States policy And the politics.
Mac recently posted number of Twitter topics on Comment @elonjet interviewed Jack Sweeney, 20-year old worker of the account.
speaking for The New York Times called the suspension “questionable and unfortunate. Neither the Times nor Ryan have received any explanation as to why this happened. We hope that of The journalists’ accounts have been reinstated and Twitter provides a satisfactory explanation for this action.”
CNN said it asked Twitter for Explanation on Comment and re-evaluate their relationship with existing platform on This reply.
The other correspondents could not immediately be reached for comment.
