{"id":2075,"date":"2022-12-16T15:14:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T15:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2022-12-16T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T15:14:27","slug":"twitter-suspends-journalists-covering-musk-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/16\/twitter-suspends-journalists-covering-musk-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter suspends journalists covering Musk, company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter on Thursday suspended several journalists who have been covering owner Elon Musk and his tumultuous ownership of the social media company.<\/p><div class=\"afric-content\" id=\"afric-2394696155\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schools.nyc.gov\/hello?utm_source=ecm-digital&#038;utm_medium=cpc&#038;utm_campaign=lac-dex-2026&#038;utm_content=french\" aria-label=\"French&#8212;300&#215;250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/africaparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/French-300x250-1.gif?fit=300%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The New York Times\u2019 Ryan Mac, CNN\u2019s Donie O\u2019Sullivan, Mashable\u2019s Matt Binder, The Intercept\u2019s Micah Lee, The Washington Post\u2019s Drew Harwell and journalists Aaron Rupar, Keith Olbermann and Tony Webster were all suspended without prior notice on Thursday night and offered no explanation.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Sullivan recently covered the account suspension of @ElonJet, an account that tracked flight data for Musk\u2019s private plane to his great annoyance.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the other reporters had tweeted about the incident or posted links to alternative social media accounts tracking Musk\u2019s jet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t heard anything from Twitter at all,\u201d Rupar wrote on his Substack. \u201cI have no idea what rules I purportedly broke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>@ElonJet\u2019s creator, 20-year-old college student Jack Sweeney, was also suspended earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter also put the freeze on Mastodon, a social media platform that has been siphoning some users away from Musk\u2019s company.<\/p>\n<p>Upon taking over Twitter in October, Musk vowed to champion free speech, and a number of previously banned accounts were reinstated.<\/p>\n<p>But since then, he\u2019s lashed out at mainstream news outlets and come under fire for controversial posts including a misleading tweet about CNN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter on Thursday suspended several journalists who have been covering owner Elon Musk and his tumultuous ownership of the social media company. 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