Elon Musk is hitting journalists who make a dwelling reporting on the billionaire the place he can … silencing their Twitter accounts.
The new proprietor of the chook app is suspending Twitter accounts for reporters from main information retailers like The New York Times, Washington Post and CNN … plus unbiased journos and people who report for Mashable and The Intercept.
Among these shedding their skill to tweet about Elon … Donie O’Sullivan from CNN, Drew Harwell from WaPo, Matt Binder from Mashable, Ryan Mac from NYT, Micah Lee from The Intercept, plus Keith Olbermann and Aaron Rupar.
Lots of oldsters getting the boot have been writing and tweeting critically about Elon … however the truth is Musk owns Twitter so he can do what he needs together with his personal firm.
Of course, Elon’s claimed he is a champion of free speech … and a few of us say that is simply not jiving with suspensions for reporters.
Here’s what a few of these banned reporters are seeing once they attempt to log in to their Twitter accounts … a message telling them their account is completely suspended for violating Twitter guidelines.
Elon’s been altering Twitter phrases of service on the fly … and it is unclear what guidelines the journalists supposedly violated to earn a suspension.
It seems extra accounts are being suspended.
Stay tuned …