Elon Musk begins banning crucial journalists from Twitter

Twitter has suspended the accounts of a number of distinguished reporters on Twitter, corresponding to The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, The Intercept’s Micha Lee, Aaron Rupar, Tony Webster, and doubtlessly extra. An inventory of the suspensions is being compiled by NBC’s Ben Collins.

Currently, it’s unclear why the bans are going down. However, the reporters being banned largely cowl know-how, and most seem to have not too long ago written stories on Elon Musk.

The New York Times’ Kate Conger has speculated that the suspensions could possibly be associated to the @ElonJet scenario, the place an account that posted when and the place Elon Musk’s personal jet took off and landed was suspended, together with its creator. Mastodon, a competing social community, additionally not too long ago had its account suspended after tweeting a hyperlink to the ElonJet account on its platform. On Wednesday, Twitter up to date its personal info and media coverage to ban sharing somebody’s dwell bodily location, in addition to hyperlinks to locations sharing that type of info.

Twitter has not instantly responded to The Verge’s request for touch upon the suspensions, although it presently doesn’t have a press division.