Twitter suspends some journalists who wrote about Elon Musk

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Published 16.12.2022
Twitter suspends some journalists who wrote about Elon Musk

Twitter on Thursday suspended the accounts of some journalists who cowl the social media platform and its new proprietor Elon Musk.

Suspended reporters together with these working for The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and different publications.

Neither the corporate nor Musk gave any rationalization for why it took down the accounts and made their profiles and previous tweets disappear.

Twitter suspends some journalists who wrote about Elon Musk
FILE – The Twitter brand is seen on a cellular phone, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

The sudden suspension of news reporters adopted Musk’s resolution Wednesday to completely ban an account that mechanically tracked the flights of his non-public jet utilizing publicly accessible information.

Twitter additionally on Wednesday modified its guidelines to ban the sharing of one other individual’s present location with out their consent.

Several of the reporters suspended Thursday night time had been writing about that new coverage and Musk’s rationale for imposing it, which concerned his allegations a few stalking incident that affected his household on Tuesday night time in Los Angeles.

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