The new bastion of free speech has just locked out a bunch of journalists who have been critical of Elon Musk.
🚨BREAKING: Twitter suspended 8 reporters this evening alone, seemingly for tweeting about Elon Musk.
– Ryan Mac NYT
– Donie O'Sullivan CNN
– Drew Harwell Wash Post
– Matt Binder Mashable
– Micah Lee The Intercept
– Aaron Rupar
– Tony Webster
– Keith Olbermann— Ryan Lindley 🎅🏼 (@ryanlindley) December 16, 2022
The last tweet from Washington Post’s Drew Harwell:
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And I’m sorry, but nobody fucks with my boy Keith! Host of the hit Podcast “Countdown,” here is Olbermann’s last tweet:
Donie O’Sullivan tweeted about Mastadon being suspended for tweeting about them hosting the @ElonJet account. This was the account that harvested publicly available information on Elon Musk’s jet and tweeted it out. While arguably somewhat creepy, the account was within Twitter guidelines before Musk moved the goal posts.
Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info.
Posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn’t a safety problem, so is ok.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2022
Last night, car carrying lil X in LA was followed by crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked car from moving & climbed onto hood.
Legal action is being taken against Sweeney & organizations who supported harm to my family.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2022
Matt Binder tweeted about how Donie O’Sullivan dug into Musk’s claims about the above scenario. As soon as Binder just talked about talking about Elon, he got zapped too!
“Twitter’s increasing instability and volatility should be of incredible concern for everyone who uses Twitter,” CNN’s statement added. “We have asked Twitter for an explanation, and we will reevaluate our relationship based on that response.” – CNN Statement
DON’T EVEN THINK of tweeting about Mastadon, either….
Just tried to post a link to my Mastadon account and Twitter blocked my tweet as “harmful”
Here it is 👇 pic.twitter.com/h8RRhS1bWA
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 16, 2022
What are we going to do with all this freedom of speech??
He’s just doing the shitty things out in the open now. Strap in, kids. This is about to get really weird.
