Elon Musk begins banning important journalists from Twitter

Twitter has suspended the accounts of a number of distinguished reporters on Twitter, resembling The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, The Intercept’s Micha Lee, Aaron Rupar, Tony Webster, and doubtlessly extra. A listing of the suspensions is being compiled by NBC’s Ben Collins.

Currently, it’s unclear why the bans are going down. However, the reporters being banned largely cowl expertise, and most seem to have just lately written stories on Elon Musk.

The New York Times’ Kate Conger has speculated that the suspensions could possibly be associated to the @ElonJet state of affairs, the place an account that posted when and the place Elon Musk’s non-public jet took off and landed was suspended, together with its creator. Mastodon, a competing social community, additionally just lately had its account suspended after tweeting a hyperlink to the ElonJet account on its platform. On Wednesday, Twitter up to date its non-public data and media coverage to ban sharing somebody’s stay bodily location, in addition to hyperlinks to locations sharing that type of data.

Twitter has not instantly responded to The Verge’s request for touch upon the suspensions, although it presently doesn’t have a press division.