The Twitter accounts of various journalists covering Elon Musk They were suspended this Thursday and their publications deleted, picked up by US media.
Journalists work for outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN o Voice of America.
Some of them, like the technology reporter for The New York Times Ryan Mac, had recently posted stories about another account being suspended: the one that used publicly available flight data to track Elon Musk’s private jet, who owns Twitter since late October.
Musk himself had earlier promised that he would not suspend that account for his “commitment to freedom of expression”, but this Wednesday Twitter changed its rules and prohibited sharing information about “the location of people in real time.”
Although Twitter has not yet made any official comment on the suspensions of journalists, the company’s new Head of Trust and Safety, Ella Irwin, He assured a reporter from The Verge today that they will suspend “any account that violates privacy rules and puts other users at risk.”
Musk himself posted a message on the social network on Thursday night saying: “Criticizing me all day is not a problem, but revealing my location in real time and endangering my family will.”
Another of the journalists whose account was suspended, CNN reporter Donnie O’Sullivan, had just tweeted about a previous message from Musk in which he claimed that a “crazy stalker” he had attacked a car in which his son was traveling in Los Angeles (California).
Musk bought Twitter from end of October for 44,000 million of dollars.
On Monday the company shut down its hate speech advisory teamin full controversy over Musk’s “amnesty” policy towards accounts previously suspended for violating the rules of the social network, such as that of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021).