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Twitter has suspended the account of prominent liberal journalist Aaron Rupar as well as reporters from CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post who have covered Elon Musk. Rupar, who has more than 788,000 followers, had his account suspended the day after Twitter suspended then restored an account that followed the movements of the billionaire's private jet. "Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not," Mr Musk tweeted on Thursday night. Mr Musk then tweeted that the accounts would be suspended from his $44bn platform for one week. "7 day suspension for doxxing. Some time away from Twitter is good for the soul …" he added in response to a follower saying they did not want to see anyone permanently banned. The move came on the same day that Twitter suspended the account of social media rival platform Mastodon. |
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| The Chinese-owned video-sharing app has long been the subject of fears that it could gather data and pass it back to officials in Beijing |
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| Entire process will take four weeks and is expected to be completed by 23 December |
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| Billions of packages are delivered every year by the world's largest retailer and a wave of environmental pollution has followed |
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How is Elon Musk justifying suspending prominent journalists from Twitter? |
Billionaire Elon Musk has defended the suspension of prominent journalists from Twitter, many of whom regularly write about him and the social media platform. Twitter suspended the accounts of independent journalist Aaron Rupar, CNN's Donie O'Sullivan, Mashable's Matt Binder, Drew Harwell of The Washington Post and Ryan Mac of The New York Times, all of whom have covered Mr Musk in recent months. The series of suspensions began after Twitter's new boss permanently banned the account "ElonJet", which tracked his private jets using publicly available data. Amid a fresh storm of criticism, how can he justify a step branded "proto-fascism" by Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? |
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