It’s Musk against the media.
According to a report from Fox News, Twitter CEO Elon Musk suspended multiple journalists Thursday night —including CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan, New York Times technology reporter Ryan Mac, Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell, The Intercept journalist Micah Lee, Mashable writer Matt Binder, former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and former Vox journalist Aaron Rupar — for allegedly violating the platform’s new policy not to share location information.
Musk claims they participated in “doxxing” and suspended the journalists for seven days.
“They posted my exact real-time location, basically assassination coordinates, in (obvious) direct violation of Twitter terms of service,” Musk wrote Thursday evening.
Musk added: “If anyone posted real-time locations & addresses of NYT reporters, FBI would be investigating, there’d be hearings on Capitol Hill & Biden would give speeches about end of democracy!”
If anyone posted real-time locations & addresses of NYT reporters, FBI would be investigating, there’d be hearings on Capitol Hill & Biden would give speeches about end of democracy!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022
From Fox News:
In another tweet, he said: “Same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’ as to everyone else,” adding “Accounts engaged in doxxing receive a temporary 7 day suspension,” Musk continued.
“Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not.”
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
Late Thursday evening, Musk further defended his actions during a Twitter Spaces conference chat hosted by journalist Katie Notopoulos of Buzzfeed.
During the call, Musk was asked to respond to his decision to ban a “handful of journalists.”
“Yeah, so I am sure that for everyone who has been doxxed would agree, sharing real-time information about someone’s location is inappropriate and I think everyone on this call would not like that to be done to them,” Musk answered.
“There’s not going to be any distinction in the future between journalists or so-called journalists and regular people,” he added. “Everyone’s going to be treated the same.”
“You’re not special because you’re a journalist, you are just a user of Twitter [and a] citizen,” Musk reiterated. “So no special treatment. You dox, you get suspended. End of story.”
More over at Fox News:
Elon Musk polls users on reinstating suspended journalists, defends himself in Twitter Spaces chat https://t.co/aiWH5SVZSS
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 16, 2022
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