Twitter bans journalists

[ad_1] Twitter owner Elon Musk said late Thursday night that the company was fixing an old bug and the audio service “should be working tomorrow.” Twitter Inc.'s live audio service, Twitter Spaces, is down after a number of journalists that had just been suspended from the social network found they could still participate on it. Twitter owner Elon Musk said late Thursday night that the company was fixing an old bug and the audio service “should be working tomorrow.” Earlier in the evening, Musk's network threw reporters from CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times, among others, into a seven-day suspension for allegedly disclosing the location of his private jet. Twitter Suspends Journalists Who Musk Says Imperiled His Safety BuzzFeed News reporter Katie Notopoulos wen...

[ad_1] Twitter has banned multiple journalists on its platform. Elon Musk tweeted that the reason behind the suspension was live sharing of his location data. In the early morning of Friday, December 16, microblogging platform Twitter banned some journalists from the platform. Most of these journalists were high-profile, belonging to institutions such as CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post and more. While the reason for the ban was not known at the time, it was later revealed by the company CEO Elon Musk that the accounts were suspended in connection with live sharing of his location data (also known as doxxing), which violated the new terms of service of Twitter. Elon Musk also made a series of tweets after the suspension of the account and said that sharing the data was end...

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Elon Musk Disables Twitter Spaces After Clash With Journalists