Twitter Suspends accounts of journalists in the name of free speech
On Thursday, Twitter experienced a lot of back-to-back suspensions of some accounts. These accounts belonged to several high-profile journalists who cover the platform and Elon Musk.
After the suspension, Elon Musk also faced off with one of the journalists he suspended in a Twitter Space audio discussion. This discussion was attended by more than 30,000 listeners. Musk mentioned Twitter’s latest rule change about accounts that track private jets, including one owned by Musk himself.
This user here has posted a screen recording showing how Elon Musk entered the sessions of the journalist just to inform them basically that all the rules apply to them as well and that they’re not special.
BREAKING: @ElonMusk just hopped on Spaces with a group of journalists and informed them the same doxxing rules apply to them and they aren’t special pic.twitter.com/SaYFWxZVpJ
— Birthday Purge Poso🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 16, 2022
In the reply to the tweet, Elon didn’t fail to humanize the situation calling the journalists “naughty” while simultaneously staying rigid on the suspension.
Here look at the tweet posted by a tweet user sharing the screenshots of the suspended accounts. The user also tagged Elon Musk in a replied tweet asking for some explanation:-
Reporters covering Elon Musk being nuked:
Donie O’Sullivan, @CNN
Drew Harwell, @washingtonpost
Ryan Mac, @nytimes
Aaron Rupar, independent pic.twitter.com/1x9oJijobA— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) December 16, 2022
Replying to the drama, Elon Musk clarified that whether they be renowned journalists “doxxing” is still against the rules. “You dox. You get suspended,” said Elon putting it straightforwardly out there.
Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022
In the proceeding tweet, Elon Musk said exactly what the journalists were doing. They posted Musk’s exact location that could’ve been a potential assassination.
They posted my exact real-time location, basically assassination coordinates, in (obvious) direct violation of Twitter terms of service
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022
Look at the tweet along with photos posted by other users as well who are questioning Elon Musk and his decision. A lot of netizens are actively criticizing Musk and its whole “free speech” tenure.
