DEVELOPING: Twitter suspends several high-profile journalists who have been covering the company and Elon Musk. https://t.co/LPC3iAdqTa
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 16, 2022
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Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O’Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post’s @drewharwell.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 16, 2022
Rupar tells me he has “no idea” why it happened.
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Apparently it’s “Free speech for me. Not for thee.”
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) December 16, 2022
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Elon is a whiny little asshole who bought this platform so he could treat his critics like he’s been treating his employees – doesn’t seem much more complicated than that.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) December 16, 2022
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Holy Shit. Elon Musk just popped into a Twitter Spaces chat with a bunch of journalists. He was called out by journalist Drew Harrell, who he banned, for lying about posting links to his private information, then leaves almost immediately after being pressed. Here is the exchange pic.twitter.com/wVA9Gb5MVJ
— Bradley Eversley (@ForeverEversley) December 16, 2022
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looks like both @mattbinder and @donnie were suspended for sharing this on-the-record statement from LAPD about Elon Musk. This is the most basic type of reporting – apparently no longer safe on Twitter pic.twitter.com/0nRbNvSBnq
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) December 16, 2022
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Wait, is this a joke. I tweeted my Post & Mastodon social media links to @HC_Richardson to also connect with her there, and Twitter labeled them “sensitive content.”
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) December 12, 2022
No idea if this is Twitter breaking down or new ownership discouraging people from leaving Twitter. Smh pic.twitter.com/ma6KV0RNaF
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Any post with a link to a Mastodon profile is being deemed “unsafe” by Twitter, and prominent technology journalists who write about Twitter have just been banned.
— Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii) December 16, 2022
That’s one way to deal with critics (& competing platforms) I guess.
But it sure as hell isn’t freedom of speech