Twitter has suspended the accounts of media personalities who have been covering Elon Musk since the billionaire and Tesla CEO purchased the social media platform in October.
Multiple media outlets reported Thursday the accounts included those of Ryan Mac of The New York Times, Drew Harwell of The Washington Post, Donie O’Sullivan of CNN, Micah Lee of The Intercept, Matt Binder of Mashable, Steve Herman of Voice of America, unaffiliated journalists Aaron Rupar and Tony Webster, and political commentator and former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann.
Each of their Twitter pages shows "account suspended," followed by "Twitter suspends accounts that violate the Twitter Rules.”
Must said the accounts would be suspended for seven days.
"Criticizing me all day long is totally fine," Musk tweeted, "but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not."
Musk claimed the accounts banned Thursday posted "my exact real-time location, basically assassination coordinates, in (obvious) direct violation of Twitter terms of service."
The suspensions occurred a day after many of those affected reported on Twitter permanently suspending the accounts that tracked the planes of government agencies, billionaires and high-profile individuals.
The most notable of those trackers was created by Jack Sweeney, a 20-year-old college student from Florida who used publicly available flight-tracking information to tweet every time Musk's jet took off and landed. Musk considered the account a safety risk for him and his family.
Musk responded late Thursday to a tweet that showed a screenshot of Washington Post tech reporter Taylor Lorenz's comments from Mastodon, a Twitter rival, that read, "Musk has begun banning journalists who have criticized him from Twitter including WaPo's Drew Harwell, NYT's Ryan Mac, and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan. My whole [Twitter] timeline is glitched out and people continue to report my tweets, so I'm worried I'll be banned soon too!"
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