Twitter suspends journalists who wrote about Elon Musk

Twitter on Thursday suspended the accounts of journalists who cowl the social media platform and its new proprietor Elon Musk, together with reporters working for The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and different publications.

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

The sudden suspension of news reporters adopted Musk’s determination Wednesday to completely ban an account that routinely tracked the flights of his personal jet utilizing publicly out there knowledge.

Twitter additionally on Wednesday modified its guidelines to ban the sharing of one other particular person’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.