Musk restores journalists’ Twitter accounts after backlash

Where’s Elon’s jet?

The suspension arose from a disagreement over a Twitter account called Elongettracked Musk’s private plane using publicly available information.

Musk has previously said he would not suspend ElonJet for free speech reasons, but on Wednesday, Twitter suspended accounts such as those tracking private jets.

Shortly after, Twitter changed its privacy policy to prohibit the sharing of “live location information.”

Then, on Thursday night, several journalists new york timesCNN, and washington postwas suspended from Twitter without notice.

Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head of trust and safety, said in an overnight email to Reuters that the team would remove “all accounts” that violated the new privacy policy by posting a direct link to the ElonJet account. It said it was checked manually.

“While we understand that the focus seems to be primarily on journalist accounts, today we have applied our policies equally to journalist and non-journalist accounts,” Irwin said in an email.

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing said in a statement Friday that Twitter’s actions were “in the spirit of the First Amendment and the principle that social media platforms permit the unfiltered distribution of information already in the public sphere. violated,” he said.

Musk accused journalists of posting his real-time location, which was “basically the assassination coordinates” of his family.

The billionaire briefly appeared in a Twitter Spaces voice chat hosted by the journalist, and immediately questioned whether the suspended reporter had actually published Musk’s real-time location information in violation of policy. has developed into a controversy.

In response to a question, Mr. Musk repeated, “If you dox, you’re suspended. End of story.” “Dox” is a term that refers to the disclosure of personal information about someone, usually with malicious intent.

of washington postDrew Harwell, one of the suspended journalists, disputed the notion that he published the exact location of Musk or his family by posting a link to ElonJet.

Shortly after, BuzzFeed reporter Katie Notopoulos, who hosted the Spaces chat, tweeted that the audio session was abruptly interrupted and the recording was unavailable.

In a tweet explaining what happened, Musk said, “We are fixing the legacy bug. It should work tomorrow.”