Major media networks including CNN, MSNBC and CBS News ripped into Elon Musk after Twitter suspended liberal journalists for allegedly posting location data.
Journalists and pundits criticized the new Twitter CEO for suspending reporters who cover Twitter.
CNN's Oliver Darcy said Thursday that the suspensions posed a serious question about what the future of the free press looks like on Twitter. MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire called the recent suspensions"off the rails" and suggested Musk’s name was synonymous with that of former President Trump. An Axios piece said Musk’s"inconsistency" in content moderation is alienating traditional media outlets and noted right-wing voices were pointing out the liberal media"finally got a taste of its own medicine."
"Simple: If Twitter is suspending people because they are reporting on or critical of Musk, then current version is no better than the old version w arbitrary and questionable enforcement. If it's suspending people for violating a clear rule, it's on them. The why matters," AG Hamilton wrote. "The people who identified their politics as one of free speech and civil liberties have been completely consistent: they condemned arbitrary censorship by the old regime and the new one," independent journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted."Liberal journalists have done a complete 180 because they have no principles: only cliques."
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