All the suspended reporters have in recent months written about Twitter’s owner, billionaire Elon Musk, and changes at the platform since he bought it. READ:
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
On Thursday, Twitter suspended @elonjet, an account tracking Musk’s private jet in real time, a month after he said his commitment to free speech extended to not banning the account. The accounts of Times reporter Ryan Mac , Post reporter Drew Harwell , CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan , and Mashable reporter Matt Binder @MattBinder were suspended. The account of independent journalist Aaron Rupar , who covers U.S. policy and politics, was also suspended.
A spokesperson for The New York Times said: “Tonight’s suspension of the Twitter accounts of a number of prominent journalists, including The New York Times’s Ryan Mac, is questionable and unfortunate. Neither The Times nor Ryan have received any explanation about why this occurred. We hope that all of the journalists’ accounts are reinstated and that Twitter provides a satisfying explanation for this action.
Twitter is now leaning heavily on automation to moderate content, doing away with certain manual reviews and favoring restrictions on distribution rather than removing certain speech outright, its new head of trust and safety Ella Irwin told Reuters this month.
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