Discussion

• Vox Shirin Ghaffary on x

  Elon Musk's Twitter journalist purge has begun

• @mmasnick@mastodon.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social on mastodon

  Can anyone explain what happened to Marc?  He used to not be this way.

• @JxckS@mastodon.social Jack Sweeney on mastodon

  If this started with your family's safety then why are you laughing about it?

• HackRead Habiba Rashid on mastodon

  Mastodon Account Suspended from Twitter Following Ban on Server Links

• @dangillmor@mastodon.social Dan Gillmor on mastodon

  Musk's suspension of tech journalists from Twitter is, on balance, the best thing that can happen right now.

• @qjurecic@mastodon.social Quinta Jurecic on mastodon

  dwillner@mastodon.online Thank goodness the head of T&S is focused on the important things! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @MikeElgan@mastodon.social Mike Elgan on mastodon

  Phrase of the moment: “hypocrisy, doxxing, and utter confusion” https://www.vice.com/...

• @mmasnick@mastodon.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social on mastodon

  Talking to former Twitter trust & safety folks... and they note that *normally* under existing policy …

• @jameeljaffer@mastodon.social Jameel Jaffer on mastodon

  Also: What message does this send to *other* reporters—the ones who haven't (yet) been purged?

• @krisholt@mastodon.social Kris Holt on mastodon

  This is a joke.  Musk was not doxxed.  The journalists did not share Musk's exact location in real-time.

• @couts@mastodon.social Andrew Couts on mastodon

  Musk has no obligation to reinstate any of the journalists Twitter suspended tonight, and that's both the problem and the point.

• @joshuatopolsky@mastodon.online Joshua Topolsky on mastodon

  Well I think Elon's mass banning of really good journalists from Twitter definitely confirms his love and embrace of free speech

• @jonchristian@mastodon.social Jon Christian on mastodon

  Hacker News tearing this man apart right now!

• Fortune Nicholas Gordon on mastodon

  Musk bans accounts for Mastodon, journalists in ‘doxxing’ fight over his private jet

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @micsolana Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @micsolana They posted my exact real-time location, basically assassination coordinates, in (obvious) direct violation of Twitter terms of service

• @verajourova @verajourova on x

  News about arbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter is worrying. EU's Digital Services Act requires respect of media freedom and fundamental rights. This is reinforced under our #MediaFreedomAct. @elonmusk should be aware of that. There are red lines. And sanctions, soon.

• @macsilenced Silenced Ryan Mac on x

  Some folks have asked so will try to answer here: -This is the notification on my account. -I was given no warning. -I have no email or communication from the company about the reason for suspension. -I report on Twitter, Elon Musk and his companies. And I will continue to do so.…

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  This was The Washington Post's @drewharwell's post before he was suspended from Twitter, outlining how Twitter suspended the account of its competitor Mastodon earlier today. https://twitter.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @IFNY2775 @micsolana Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Re: the banning of reporters who have tweeted about Elon Musk's jet, Twitter's head of trust & safety Ella Irwin tells me: “Without commenting on any specific accounts, I can confirm that we will suspend any accounts that violate our privacy policies and put other users at risk.”

• @washpostpr @washpostpr on x

  Statement from @washingtonpost Executive Editor Sally Buzbee https://twitter.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @IFNY2775 @micsolana Accounts engaged in doxxing receive a temporary 7 day suspension

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  I don't know what happened here but if @elonmusk doesn't fix this within the hour with an explanation by morning, I'll be on Capitol Hill tomorrow demanding that he be hauled in front of Congress. https://twitter.com/...

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  [Thread] Twitter suspends accounts of journalists who cover Elon Musk, including WaPo's Drew Harwell, NYT's Ryan Mac, CNN's Donie O'Sullivan, and Aaron Rupar

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @JackPosobiec If they're naughty, they get suspended

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Unsuspend accounts who doxxed my exact location in real-time

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @RAMansour @KeithOlbermann 7 day suspension for doxxing. Some time away from Twitter is good for the soul ...

• @reploritrahan Lori Trahan on x

  My team met with @Twitter today. They told us that they're not going to retaliate against independent journalists or researchers who publish criticisms of the platform. Less than 12 hours later, multiple technology reporters have been suspended. What's the deal, @elonmusk? https:…

• @keithedwards Keith Edwards on x

  This is old data from Elon's jet, so it's ok to share. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @lorakolodny Lora Kolodny on x

  A lot of reporters, columnists and researchers who have worked on Elon Musk-related investigations have been suspended here tonight. It looks haphazard as many of us on the beat (Tesla, or covering Musk companies) remain -even though he's blocked some of us and deems us “legacy.”

• @aaschapiro Avi Asher-Schapiro on x

  it's hard to imagine a definition of doxing that includes the flight path of oligarchs private jets.

• @pmarca Marc Andreessen on x

  https://twitter.com/...

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  Political pundit @keitholbermann has been suspended by Twitter. He had been tweeting critically of Elon Musk.

• @ramansour Rebecca Mansour on x

  Having been on the receiving end of @keitholbermann's tweet mobs more than once, I can't say I'm going to miss him. But I don't like seeing anyone get suspended, so I hope this isn't permanent. https://twitter.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Twitter right now is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

• @matt_levine Matt Levine on x

  in all seriousness what a great day to have an email newsletter. like i'd miss twitter but it is not my livelihood.

• @kylenabecker Kyle Becker on x

  It's only ‘proto-fascism’ when the left disagrees with how a company is run. When Big Tech censors and suspends American citizens and journalists the left disgrees with it's all completely fine. It's ‘democracy’! https://twitter.com/...

• @chefjoseandres José Andrés on x

  Hey ⁦⁦@elonmusk⁩! @donie isn't such a bad guy after all...he has a few crazy ideas about the importance of free speech and an independent press, but I won't hold that against him. He says thanks for the Twitter ban because he needed to catch up on White Lotus anyway... https://tw…

• @charlesarthur Charles Arthur on x

  Notable how Musk is insistent that the location of his jet is *his* location (it isn't necessarily) and that keeping that secret overrides everything and everyone. A little glimpse of the self-absorption of the ultra-rich. https://twitter.com/...

• @anneapplebaum Anne Applebaum on x

  “free speech” = the banning of journalists, for no reason? Seems like Musk has learned something from his friends in Russia and China https://aaronrupar.substack.com/ ...

• @tedlieu Ted Lieu on x

  No. @elonmusk way overpaid for Twitter and he can basically do whatever he wants with it. The First Amendment prevents Congress from regulating speech on Twitter, a private business. It is not Government's role to tell Twitter who to ban, who to suspend or who to promote. https:/…

• @aggichristiane @aggichristiane on x

  Backlash against Elon Musk suspending journalists from Twitter has spread among senior European politicians, with threats of future sanctions and lawmakers leaving the platform https://www.bloomberg.com/... with @DeutschJill, @BenoitBerthelot, @StephanieBodoni, @KowalczeKamil

• @joshtpm Josh Marshall on x

  Just so we're clear this is a complete lie. None of them did anything like this. Also, lol “assassination coordinates” .... Good lord what a whiny little bitch. https://twitter.com/...

• @micsolana Mike Solana on x

  so far, i've been able to confirm about half the accounts suspended posted links to the jet tracker thing in violation of the new doxx'ing policy. unclear just yet about the rest, but i think it's safe to say the rule is for real. https://twitter.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @DavidSacks Seems fine to me

• @aoc Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on x

  You're a public figure. An extremely controversial and powerful one. I get feeling unsafe, but descending into abuse of power + erratically banning journalists only increases the intensity around you. Take a beat and lay off the proto-fascism. Maybe try putting down your phone. h…

• @ditzkoff Dave Itzkoff on x

  getting banned from twitter for sharing real-time updates on Santa Claus's flight path from NORAD

• @markdistef Mark Di Stefano on x

  If the suspensions hold, this is the end.

• @jasonhirschhorn Jason Hirschhorn on x

  Dangerous. So dangerous. Not reckless. It was intended. But terrible. Horrific.

• @roslyntalusan Roslyn on x

  a 7 day suspension was typically reserved for the account's 6th or 7th tos violation. and it used to be very hard to get to the point, especially for verified accounts. https://twitter.com/...

• @jeremysmiles Jeremy Kaplowitz on x

  elon is banning all mentions of his flights. why? there's only one possibility. elon musk did 9/11

• @carnage4life @carnage4life on x

  There's no hidden business genius in banning journalists that cover your companies or shutting down features because people use them to mock you. It's his party and he'll cry if he wants to. He spent $44B for that privilege.

• @campbellclaret Alastair Campbell on x

  Fair to say that @elonmusk almost rivals Trump in the narcissistic twatology stakes. In common with many wealthy people, assumes an automatic link between own wealth and own intelligence and importance to the world https://twitter.com/...

• @drmistercody Cody Johnston on x

  vox uhhhhhh populi, vox hmmm darnit https://twitter.com/...

• @elgindy_ Khaled Elgindy on x

  Musk's Twitter has inexplicably suspended the account of @MossawaCenter, a human rights group that promotes equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel.

• @cd_hooks Christopher Hooks on x

  banning tech reporters that cover twitter from the platform is a more egregious abuse of modpower than anything that was in The Twitter Files. feels like Elon could use a guy to help him keep his narratives straight

• @mgsiegler M.G. Siegler on x

  I don't even know what to tweet. This is just lame, pathetic, and depressing.

• @hsajwanization @hsajwanization on x

  Elon Musk: - Bans violent accounts on Twitter - Bans child pornogrophy on Twitter - Bans sex trafficking on Twitter - Bans domestic terrorism on Twitter - Bans real-time doxxing of locations on Twitter (due to threats against children) Media: - Elon is making Twitter unsafe!

• @cfarivar @cfarivar on x

  So Elon appears to no longer allow his tweets to be searched. Here was a recent tweet from him with “lol.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @mcoatney Mark Coatney on x

  The reason Elon is making a mistake by booting journalists off Twitter is that journalists give Twitter outsized cultural significance. Twitter without reporters is basically a minor-league Snapchat

• @yoda Drew Olanoff on x

  if any of this is surprising to you then you haven't been paying attention.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @neontaster One day of Twitter suspension ≠ death

• @carnage4life @carnage4life on x

  The past two days makes The Twitter Files a gigantic joke.

• @bfriedmandc Brandon Friedman on x

  Just making it up as he goes. It's quite disturbing and the Defense Department and Congress really need to take a good, hard look at America's relationship with @SpaceX. No way this guy should have any connection to national security. https://twitter.com/...

• @davidsacks David Sacks on x

  The people who shrieked loudest that Elon would allow hate and safety threats on Twitter are now shrieking that he's banned hate and safety threats on Twitter.

• @ericgarland Eric Garland on x

  Washington Post expected more democratic values from the South African dude who just hired a member of the Chinese Communist Party to run his car company in Texas. https://twitter.com/...

• @gfilche Gali on x

  the mainstream media can't stop talking about @twitter drama because it fuels the clickbait model at the same time its giving @twitter more attention, press and power than ever. disruption is accelerating

• @yaqiu Yaqiu Wang on x

  Deja vu for those who have experience with Chinese social media: you found your account got suddenly suspended, and you wondered whether it was because you criticized that man. Hard to believe this is happening on Twitter- where people in China come to exercise their free speech.…

• @goangelo Angelo Carusone on x

  1/RE suspension of journalists. This latest action aligns with a general mood i've been getting from advertisers the past week. Specifically, concerns about retaliation by Musk. The angst about his brazenness has had a weird chilling effect.

• @mat Mat Honan on x

  Seems like a good time to re-up this @ceodonovan @cwarzel and the account formerly known as @rmac18 deep cut https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @espiers Elizabeth Spiers on x

  Imagine paying $44 billion for a social network in order to turn it into a vanity project that exists solely to protect your ego. https://twitter.com/...

• @jasondebolt @jasondebolt on x

  If someone created a Twitter account called “JasonsCar” and tweeted every fucking corner I turned, resulting in some masked psychopath attacking my vehicle with my family inside, you're goddamn right that account should be blasted. Public flight trackers mean nothing to me.

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  Musk's Twitter now appears to be rapidly suspending the accounts of journalists and others who tweet screenshots of tweets from other banned account. It's a free-speech bonanza! https://twitter.com/...

• @eliothiggins Eliot Higgins on x

  Getting booed once was all it took for Musk to turn into a vengeful nitwit. Helps put the Twitter Files into context too. https://twitter.com/...

• @eaton @eaton on x

  Aha, we've reached the “mod loses his shit and starts adding new rules because he had a bad day, banning people who notice and posting angry tirades” stage of the webforum meltdown arc

• @junlper @junlper on x

  @elonmusk i support free speech so i'm voting “now”, join me fellow patriots

• @mikaelthalen Mikael Thalen on x

  The Intercept's Micah Lee how now been suspended for tweeting about Musk's suspension of Mastodon and ElonJet. https://twitter.com/...

• @mattmfm Matt McDermott on x

  A reminder that, just yesterday, news reports revealed that Musk was planning to salvage Twitter's ad business by forcing users to share their location — “basically assassination coordinates” — with advertisers. https://twitter.com/...

• @zei_squirrel @zei_squirrel on x

  this is such a deranged excuse, at least try to come up with something remotely plausible. If those are your “assassination coordinates”, then it's available through a quick google search. Anyone who falls for this is such a fucking rube holy shit https://twitter.com/...

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x

  “Free Speech absolutist” https://twitter.com/...

• @bikemilitant @bikemilitant on x

  @nycsouthpaw https://twitter.com/...

• @campuscodi Catalin Cimpanu on x

  Free speech for me, but not for thee! https://twitter.com/...

• @ashleyfeinberg Ashley Feinberg on x

  i gotta say part of me is a little impressed with how wildly and explicitly elon musk lies, most people this prominent at least try to use partial truths for arguments sake—but not our boy https://twitter.com/...

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x

  This whole thing is the perfect argument for Web3. (It's a pity we're about 5 years away from that existing) https://twitter.com/...

• @timcast Tim Pool on x

  FAFO Achieved Dont fuck with peoples families https://twitter.com/...

• @taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on x

  Marc Andreessen and Musk both have long histories of vicious online harassment. Andreessen in particular is known for online stalking and harassing women, such as those who have blocked him on Twitter. https://twitter.com/...

• @dougjballoon @dougjballoon on x

  Any account doxxing real-time stock prices of Tesla will be suspended. This includes posting links to sites with real-time Tesla stock prices.

• @catturd2 @catturd2 on x

  Good morning to everyone especially Elon Musk for giving the Left daily unhinged, nuclear meltdowns.

• @jaywillis Jay Willis on x

  I didn't think this was possible, but Elon being the main character on Twitter is worse than Trump being the main character on Twitter and it isn't close https://twitter.com/...

• @anakasparian Ana Kasparian on x

  Please DO NOT amplify it. Elon is feeling extremely vulnerable. Understandable considering his poor investment & management decisions in recent months. Then he gets humiliated on stage with Chappelle & has his wealth ranking downgraded? Woof! Protect him in this delicate state. h…

• @anildash @anildash on x

  It's been heading this way for a decade. And they are not going to back down this time, they have captured platform power *and* radicalized each other into such a distorted perception that they will undermine accountability journalism as effectively as they undermined elections. …

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  They're gonna have to rename the Streisand Effect after tonight.

• @sheeraf Sheera Frenkel on x

  At least five reporters at outlets ranging from the NYT to CNN have been banned from Twitter tonight. I became active on Twitter after seeing how critical it was in Tahrir Square in 2011, when reporters used it to source and share critical information. How times have changed.

• @steinkobbe @steinkobbe on x

  Getting all worked up about “the Twitter files” that just showed lots of internal debate on how to apply the rules of the site seems pretty fucking silly now

• @michaelehayden Michael Edison Hayden on x

  Elon Musk's Twitter nuked the antifascist news website It's Going Down — I look forward to the free speech substack people jumping in to get mad about this one: https://twitter.com/...

• @jdland @jdland on x

  Perhaps a good night for mass RTing of this. https://twitter.com/...

• @mattwalshblog Matt Walsh on x

  Lol the same people who chanted “Twitter is a private company!” for years and years are now literally calling for a congressional investigation into Twitter suspensions. These people just have no shame at all. It's amazing to behold. https://twitter.com/...

• @veryimportant Patrick Cosmos on x

  “I'm being doxxed by the FAA” is something you see a crank protesting about outside of a city courthouse. Things are going even more great than ever before

• @chinchillazllla @chinchillazllla on x

  Jesus Christ https://twitter.com/...

• @tonyromm Tony Romm on x

  It is inexcusable for Twitter to ban journalists including my colleagues, and we all should sincerely rethink our presence here

• @elizableu Eliza on x

  Corporate press journalists are going harder about Twitter suspensions than they ever went for Julian Assange.

• @fxshaw Frank X. Shaw on x

  how about a pool of who gets banned next, I've got my money split between @fmanjoo and @CaseyNewton

• @adamsteinbaugh Adam Steinbaugh on x

  We apologise again for the reporting on Elon Musk. Those responsible for reporting about the reporters' bannings have been banned.

• @stonekettle @stonekettle on x

  Anyway, in case you ever wondered what it would be like to live in the 1920s in a company town where everything from your job to your house to your kids' school to your doctor to your literal ass belonged to some robber baron in a big house up on the hill, welp, now you know.

• @suhail @suhail on x

  As predicted, running Twitter has ended up being a giant distraction over everything else. And I think it will continue to be. Zuck has probably found the most inner peace at highest level. You've gotta give him that.

• @mattyglesias Matthew Yglesias on x

  I'll say again that it's @elonmusk's company and he's entitled to do what he wants with it, but Tesla's heavy dependence on China both for production and sales makes me worry — the risk has always been too little freedom in MuskTwitter not too much.

• @joshuatopolsky Joshua Topolsky on x

  Just curious @jack, does Elon still seem like the perfect guy to run Twitter?

• @mikaelthalen Mikael Thalen on x

  The account for journalist Keith Olbermann has been suspended as well after similarly tweeting about Musk's suspension of Mastodon, ElonJet, and other journalists. https://twitter.com/...

• @snowden Edward Snowden on x

  I'm significantly more sympathetic to @ElonMusk's concern about crazy people showing up at the door than the average person because, well, look at my life, but c'mon, man. You're a public figure in a position of power in a world where even normal people are constantly tracked.

• @davidklion David Klion on x

  The “free speech” stuff has always been pure projection. Bari Weiss started her career trying to silence academics she disagreed with, and now she's cast her lot with a megalomaniac who's purging any journalist who ever criticized him—something old Twitter mgmt would never do.

• @derekjgz Derek Johnson on x

  Elon Musk: Free speech crusader, lover of humanity, guardian of the spark of consciousness. Also Elon Musk: https://techcrunch.com/...

• @larakate @larakate on x

  Honestly this is heartbreaking. journalists were my team's partners. They've always been the truest heartbeat of Twitter. This is very deeply sad.

• @hasanthehun @hasanthehun on x

  HES SOOOOOOOOOOOO FREEE SPEECH!!!!! https://twitter.com/...

• @asilbwrites @asilbwrites on x

  Oh cool so we've gotten to the “Elon censors journalists in the name of free speech” plot point

• @pkafka Peter Kafka on x

  “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” said Mr. Musk. https://www.prnewswire.com/...

• @tszzl Roon on x

  banning enemy journos like a banana republic lol. even the kangaroo courts are gone

• @wholemarsblog @wholemarsblog on x

  This is the Elon / Twitter marketing plan — a new drama every week

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  @drewharwell The Intercept journalist @micahflee has been suspended. He had been writing critically about Elon Musk.

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  this part is beside the point but it's also ever more proof that @elonmusk has absolutely no clue how his own platform works. no worse strategy for the ‘own the libs crowd’ than banning the people they see as ‘the opposition’

• @profgalloway Scott Galloway on x

  Twitter TOS: • don't hurt Elon's feelings

• @leyawn Leon on x

  with the way he is flailing since the chapelle show, i think we should all boo elon musk whenever he is seen in public until he does something to himself. the something that he does is not important

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  Texts from an unknown sender, from discovery in the Elon Musk/Twitter suit months ago. Pretty remarkable to read after these suspensions of journalists tonight. https://twitter.com/...

• @gilbertjasono Jason O. Gilbert on x

  Is this what it feels like the second before your Tesla explodes

• @hasanthehun @hasanthehun on x

  its hysterical to claim reporters reporting on a tech story about a thin skinned manbaby abusing his power over his tech serfdom is actually an assassination plot. https://twitter.com/...

• @nktpnd Ankit Panda on x

  Theory: This guy is having a tantrum over the fact that he just had to sell $3.6 billion in stock to keep the unprofitable social media site he bought running. (Remember: TWTR debt-servicing costs are astronomical post-acquisition.) https://twitter.com/...

• @juliancastro @juliancastro on x

  Great way to attract advertisers @elonmusk. Welcome the hate mongers back and suspend the journalists. How long till your your investors pull the plug on your leadership? https://twitter.com/...

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  Amazing. Now Twitter has suspended my colleague, Washington Post tech reporter Drew Harwell, without explanation—apparently for his tweet critical of Musk, which included a screenshot of Mastodon's tweet. https://t.co/kzp7TEeTbD

• @goangelo Angelo Carusone on x

  4/ Plenty other examples. Point is: the fear levels have increased and many are just hoping they can keep head down and make exit when moment arises. His conduct has slowed the bleeding a bit among ad world, but it's also calcified notion that Twitter is a bad advertising bet.

• @iandunt Ian Dunt on x

  This is fucking atrocious. An abysmal bottomless disgrace. Musk is a thin-skinned petulant child who sabotages the very values he claims to uphold. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @tim_burgess Tim Burgess on x

  Oh Elon, you remind me of when we used to run into those mega rich kids who had formed a band for all the wrong reasons, changing the rules as they go but never being as included as they wanted to be, buying everything. Just chill a bit and be less of a dick about it all x x

• @drtechlash Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD on x

  @Techmeme Twitter is “The single most important platform for news-breaking, rabble-rousing among the political & media class” (@SchreckReports) e.g., “story-chasing reporters, take-happy pundits & spotlight-thirsty public figures” (@inafried). Removing reporters changes what Twit…

• @joannastern Joanna Stern on x

  Someone please suspend me so I stop refreshing this app

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  This is simply false. Twitter suspended several journalists tonight who definitely had not tweeted Musk's exact real-time location. It will be interesting to see whether Musk lets his beloved Community Notes correct the record here. https://twitter.com/...

• @hasanthehun @hasanthehun on x

  absolutely insane abuse of power. https://twitter.com/...

• @zck Zak Kukoff on x

  It's over. We were promised transparent but dictatorial banning but only got the latter

• @shaun_vids Shaun on x

  elon musk pledges to ban accounts that expose the location of his plane. google ‘elon musk plane exposed’ to find out more

• @callumj @callumj on x

  How will @jason and @DavidSacks use gymnastics to explain this one... https://twitter.com/...

• @getfiscal Don Hughes on x

  From his perspective, Elon Musk is asking whether his son should be put into mortal danger in one day or seven. https://twitter.com/...

• @davenewworld_2 @davenewworld_2 on x

  I empathize with Elon Musk's concerns about flight tracking, which is why I am calling on Congress to ban private jets. The best way for us to keep billionaires safe is if they simply travel on a commercial flight surrounded by security and air marshals.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  I love Barbara Streisand lol

• @profgalloway Scott Galloway on x

  Elon tomorrow: Twitter engagement all-time high last night! volatility vs. value

• @davidsacks David Sacks on x

  Elon's content moderation decisions so far: - no swastikas - no continuous real-time doxxing What's the problem?

• @victorshi2020 Victor Shi on x

  Elon Musk just suspended a bunch of journalists, including Aaron Rupar, who cover him — without any reason. By silencing journalists, it's clear that Elon Musk doesn't care about free speech or democracy. He only cares about himself. We should all be outraged.

• @oliverdarcy Oliver Darcy on x

  Aaron Rupar tells me, “I never posted anything Elon Jet related or that could violate the policy about disclosing locations. Unless the policy is that you criticize Elon and you get banned.”

• @eve6 @eve6 on x

  Apparently elon is summarily banning all big accounts who are critical of him so i just wanna say elon your fake hair looks really real you almost can't tell that it's fake and that you're naturally bald

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @jasondebolt My plane is actually not trackable without using non-public data

• @garfep Andrew Goldfarb on x

  if you're someone who defends this guy's every move, now might be a great time to reflect on what you think his goals actually are for this platform, because if you think they have anything to do with “free speech” you're lying to yourself https://twitter.com/...

• @nicoleperlroth Nicole Perlroth on x

  This isn't the Godfather. It's Erdogan's “Disinformation Law” playing out, in real time, in the United States. https://twitter.com/...

• @ashleyfeinberg Ashley Feinberg on x

  god this is so fucking funny https://twitter.com/...

• @phil_lewis_ Philip Lewis on x

  A message on the accounts simply says they have been suspended for violating Twitter's rules. Aaron Rupar told NBC's @oneunderscore__ he had “no idea” why the suspension happened

• @jyn_urso Jyn Urso on x

  Banning journalists is the opposite of free speech. https://twitter.com/...

• @pmarca Marc Andreessen on x

  A warm welcome to all the newest converts to the great American cause of free speech!

• @timcast Tim Pool on x

  Aaron Rupar issues correction stating that he did link to Elon Jet tracker https://aaronrupar.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @jesskcoleman Jess Coleman on x

  If George Soros bought Twitter and then promptly banned a bunch of Fox News reporters who were critical of him, I'm fairly certain Republicans would stop the rotation of the earth.

• @jimwaterson Jim Waterson on x

  Ok so, Elon Musk is now just banning journalists who report on him. Given 1) DMs aren't encrypted and I wouldn't trust the new twitter leadership not to read them 2) Some colleagues can no longer log in Time to start deleting what you can while you can. https://www.theguardian.co…

• @gloria_sin Gloria Sin on x

  Who is the “free speech absolutist” now??? https://twitter.com/...

• @kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x

  The argument was Twitter wasn't interested in free speech, and silenced those who opposed it. To rectify that, Twitter is now disinterested in free speech and silencing those it doesn't like.

• @moelleithee Mo Elleithee on x

  Free speech without a free press isn't really a thing. https://twitter.com/...

• @shiraovide Shira Ovide on x

  There is no hope for Twitter if it overreacts to whatever the boss finds unwelcome. People and institutions that value free expression cannot stand for the unwarranted account suspensions of journalists.

• @benjysarlin Benjy Sarlin on x

  The funniest part about spending $44b just to boot accounts that annoy him is that in a few months (weeks?) everyone who bothers him most will be on whatever platform fills the void and talking shit about him again for the same audience

• @ashleyfeinberg Ashley Feinberg on x

  this is insane but also god he's such a fucking baby https://twitter.com/...

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  Mashable's @mattbinder has been suspended from Twitter. He's been on the Elon Musk beat.

• @phil_lewis_ Philip Lewis on x

  Twitter has suspended a host of the nation's preeminent tech journalists, many of whom have reported about billionaire Elon Musk They are @webster, @rmac18, @atrupar, @drewharwell, @mattbinder, @donie, @micahflee @keitholbermann has also been suspended https://www.huffpost.com/..…

• @kattenbarge Kat Tenbarge on x

  Twitter is currently mass-banning accounts that go against it and Elon Musk's interests, including journalists who cover him/the company, Mastodon, leftist accounts, and more

• @mikaelthalen Mikael Thalen on x

  Mashable's Matt Binder has now been suspended for covering Musk's suspension of Mastodon and ElonJet. https://twitter.com/...

• @tomgara Tom Gara on x

  Poll closing in 17 minutes, this one could come down to turnout in the Atlanta suburbs https://twitter.com/...

• @byyourlogic @byyourlogic on x

  Elon stuff verges on tired and boring like Trump stuff would, but then he always makes a breakthrough in hilarious neediness. just try to picture John D Rockefeller doing this. imagine him buying every telegraph company and sending messages to everyone, “do you like me?”

• @adamweinstein Adam Weinstein on x

  B E N G H A Z It's about free speech

• @oliverdarcy Oliver Darcy on x

  Vox Populi, Vox Dei ..... unless you don't like the result! https://twitter.com/...

• @pmarca Marc Andreessen on x

  Me suppressing my personal information is protecting my physical safety. You suppressing your personal information is an unacceptable breach of free expression.

• @mmasnick@mastodon.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social on mastodon

  Listening to the Twitter Space where Musk buddy Jason Calacanis is defending the removal …

• @brenonade Brennan Murphy on x

  Here is Elon's full appearance in @katienotopoulos' spaces with banned journalists tonight https://twitter.com/...

• @forevereversley Bradley Eversley on x

  Holy Shit. Elon Musk just popped into a Twitter Spaces chat with a bunch of journalists. He was called out by journalist Drew Harrell, who he banned, for lying about posting links to his private information, then leaves almost immediately after being pressed. Here is the exchange…

• @katienotopoulos Katie Notopoulos on x

  https://twitter.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  If anyone posted real-time locations & addresses of NYT reporters, FBI would be investigating, there'd be hearings on Capitol Hill & Biden would give speeches about end of democracy!

• @katienotopoulos Katie Notopoulos on x

  somehow Twitter doesn't stop suspended accounts from joining Spaces, so @ElonJet, @drewharwell, @mattbinder (all suspended) are all here lmao https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  Twitter has a bug where suspended accounts could still use Twitter Spaces. Since everyone who knows that codebase has been fired, Twitter has shut down the entire Twitter Spaces feature. Truly a master class in how to run a social media service. https://twitter.com/...

• @jordanuhl @jordanuhl on x

  man just dips https://twitter.com/...

• @lookner Steve Lookner on x

  Twitter Spaces has been temporarily deactivated. Elon Musk claims Twitter is fixing a “legacy bug.” Earlier tonight a Twitter Space that included several of the journalists who had been suspended (and which Elon Musk briefly stopped by) had a large audience. https://twitter.com/.…

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  Here is Musk's full exchange on Twitter Space as he tried to explain himself, misrepresented what the reporter was doing, the reporter challenged him and then Musk misrepresented it again and took off. https://twitter.com/...

• @kattenbarge Kat Tenbarge on x

  Elon Musk was just in a Twitter Space with a few journalists and after getting like 3 questions he had to leave because he couldn't answer a single one

• @jackposobiec @jackposobiec on x

  BREAKING: @ElonMusk just hopped on Spaces with a group of journalists and informed them the same doxxing rules apply to them and they aren't special https://twitter.com/...

• @rmayemsinger Randi Mayem Singer on x

  Elon just showed up in this Space, refused to answer journalists' questions, barked some orders and stormed out. Incredible. https://twitter.com/...

• @katienotopoulos Katie Notopoulos on x

  The best part of hosting a Twitter Space with Elon Musk is that @PranavDixit had to write about it https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @jeretonuniverse @jeretonuniverse on x

  For everyone is wondering why #TwitterSpaces is not working: Elon had this encounter with journalists and fled the scene, not shortly after all of the metadata of the space was deleted including access to it. Suspicions are that he turned off access to Spaces overall. https://twi…

• @punished_catbus @punished_catbus on x

  Elon Musk deleting Spaces because a journalist made him cry is the most owned anyone has ever been, online

• @eliothiggins Eliot Higgins on x

  Elon Musk bringing the Badly Moderated Early-2000s Internet Forum experience to hundreds of millions of people.

• @koladeszn @koladeszn on x

  Now Elon has removed space from twitter, can you give me a space in your heart? https://twitter.com/...

• @tomgara Tom Gara on x

  The whole thing really got nuked from space. The concept of a series of frantic late night messages among execs being told that Katie Notopoulos must be stopped is an incredible one to think about. https://twitter.com/...

• @fchollet François Chollet on x

  E.M. bans a bunch of journalists critical of him, then he pops into a Space where he gets called out for lying about the official motive for the bans, can't justify himself, immediately leaves. Shortly afterwards Twitter forcefully shut down that Space. Just incredible stuff. htt…

• @jonbradyphoto Jon Brady on x

  Elon Musk tells journalists in a Twitter Space “You dox, you get suspended, that's it”, in response to criticism of his blocking of the @elonjet account - and then immediately runs away before anyone can respond. If we thought Trump had thin skin, boy oh boy... https://twitter.co…

• @marisakabas Marisa Kabas on x

  audio of elon musk joining @katienotopoulos twitter space, getting pushback about his bogus claims, and storming out (h/t @CrymsonDawn) https://twitter.com/...

• @pranavdixit @pranavdixit on x

  🚨 Breaking: Elon Musk Bounced From A Twitter Space After Journalists He Suspended Tried To Ask Him Why They Were Banned https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @triketora Tracy Chou on x

  cannot wait for all the journalists to write up the insane discussion from this space https://twitter.com/...

• @ceciliakang Cecilia Kang on x

  The party moved to the back porch, people. Join https://twitter.com/...

• @aliceavizandum Donna Respirator on x

  Twitter Spaces no longer exist and all it took was Elon Musk getting owned in one of them one time lmao

• @johnpaczkowski John Paczkowski on x

  Elon fled a Twitter space with most every tech reporter in the business when @katienotopoulos pressed him on this moments ago. https://twitter.com/...

• @mattsheffield Matthew Sheffield on x

  This was always a lie, but tonight made it obvious. Elon Musk is a reactionary extremist who hates real free speech. He wants to make this site a safe space for neo-nazis, liars, spammers, morons, and scammers. https://twitter.com/...

• @ericareport Erica Marsh on x

  Elon Musk just abruptly left a Twitter Space after being unable to answer any questions regarding the mass suspension of journalists.

• @jordanuhl @jordanuhl on x

  lol elon joined that space, got one tough question then bounced because he got cornered in his response

• @kimtodzi Kim Todzi on x

  One has to admire the fact how bluntly Elon Musk demonstrates what an Orwellian farce his free speech approach is. https://twitter.com/...

• @crulge @crulge on x

  There's a twitter space right now where Elon's lackey @jason is saying that the Elon jet account was putting children in danger. Which is funny because that guy knows a lot about flight data and endangered children https://twitter.com/...

• @dellcam Dell Cameron on x

  if you want to hear jason calacanis talk over a bunch of people for 20 minutes, here's your chance https://twitter.com/...

• @jbouie @jbouie on x

  this guy might be the single biggest baby on the planet https://twitter.com/...

• @jtlol @jtlol on x

  They don't care about censorship. They just want to be the censors. https://twitter.com/...

• @davidlat David Lat on x

  So apparently suspended accounts can still participate in Twitter Spaces; the recently suspended @MattBinder is in this Spaces conversation right now. I guess glitches like this happen when you fire all your engineers.... https://twitter.com/...

• @qwrrty Tim Pierce on x

  This Twitter Space was wild. WILD. A whole slew of the #BloodyThursday banned journalists showed up. Then Elmo himself joined the chat and gave extremely awkward, evasive answers, and then fled. Then about a half-hour later the whole Space got terminated mid-sentence. https://twi…

• @adribbleofink Aidan Moher on x

  Dude coulda had it all. He coulda built spaceships and future cars, people would've loved him. Solved cold fusion. He coulda had a Fortnite skin and ended up next to Edison and Tesla in the history books without ever having to work a day in his life. But instead he chose... this.…

• @cooltimesonline @cooltimesonline on x

  a hilarious gigantic baby https://twitter.com/...

• @iamsophianelson Sophia A. Nelson on x

  He's not okay. https://twitter.com/...

• @oalexanderdk Oliver Alexander on x

  Suspended accounts can still freely use Twitter Spaces to both talk and listen. Top tier coding at Twitter https://twitter.com/...

• The Verge Jay Peters on mastodon

  Twitter is blocking links to Mastodon

• Techdirt Mike Masnick on mastodon

  Elon's Commitment To Free Speech Rapidly Replaced By His Commitment To Blatant Hypocrisy: Bans The JoinMastodon Account

• Rolling Stone Charisma Madarang on mastodon

  Elon Musk's Twitter Bans and Blocks Links to Rival Mastodon

• The Hill Jared Gans on mastodon

  Twitter suspends Mastodon's official account

• Barron's Online Adam Clark on mastodon

  Musk's Twitter Suspends Accounts of Some Journalists and Rival Mastodon

• Music Ally Stuart Dredge on mastodon

  Twitter blocks Mastodon links and suspends prominent journalists

• @danyork@mastodon.social Dan York on mastodon

  mmasnick Great article!  But I'm going with the “he's nervous” thinking because I just discovered that …

• @qjurecic@mastodon.social Quinta Jurecic on mastodon

  Ironically, the Great Banning is the first time that Mastodon has felt like it's fulfilling …

• @atomicpoet@mastodon.social Chris Trottier on mastodon

  Aaaaand Mastodon sign-ups are spiking again!

• @Gargron@mastodon.social Eugen Rochko on mastodon

  What a thing to wake up to

• TechSpot Rob Thubron on mastodon

  Twitter suspends accounts of several journalists, blocks Mastodon following Elon Musk doxxing row

• @atomicpoet@mastodon.social Chris Trottier on mastodon

  Every journalist should now know that a free and open Internet means a free and open Press.

• @thewolflawyer@mastodon.social Wolf Lawyer on mastodon

  danyork @mmasnick I tried to add my Mastodon profile to my twitter bio before I left.  It's malware apparently.

• @Pwnallthethings@mastodon.social @Pwnallthethings@mastodon.social on mastodon

  Me three weeks ago: man, it's great so many tech folks are here, but it's gonna be a nightmare to get …

• @repdonbeyer Rep. Don Beyer on x

  Twitter is now attempting to prevent its users from navigating to the official social media accounts of elected officials on other platforms: https://twitter.com/...

• @danluu Dan Luu on x

  Editing my name or description to add a or change a mastodon link now returns: “Account update failed: Description is considered malware.” This seems totally fine at this point, since most people I follow are now primarily posting to Mastodon. https://twitter.com/...

• @b_fung Brian Fung on x

  Some Twitter users have reported that attempts to share Mastodon URLs now results in those links being marked as unsafe. I just tested it myself using an alt account and confirmed it — Twitter blocked me from sharing the link. https://twitter.com/...

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  Twitter is preventing users from linking to their Mastodon accounts. Mine is at mastodon(.)social/@oneunderscore__ https://twitter.com/...

• @jake_k Jake Kastrenakes on x

  twitter is now blocking links to at least a dozen mastodon servers — this whole free speech thing is not going well https://www.theverge.com/...

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  jeez i didn't realize all mastodon links were banned lol what a friggin jabroni https://twitter.com/...

• @bendobrown Benjamin Strick on x

  If you are wondering what's been suspended recently from Twitter, here's a list: - Platform @joinmastodon - Flight tracker @adsbexchange - @elonjet & @JxckSweeney - Prominent journalists @donie @webster @rmac18 @atrupar @W7VOA @drewharwell @mattbinder @micahflee https://twitter.c…

• @mikaelthalen Mikael Thalen on x

  Musk is now arguing that sharing links to the Mastodon account of ElonJet, which uses publicly available radar data to track his private jet, is akin to giving out “assassination coordinates.” https://twitter.com/...

• @anonymousnn3 @anonymousnn3 on x

  The official twitter account of Mastodon has been suspended. https://twitter.com/...

• @adambienkov Adam Bienkov on x

  “Free speech absolutist” Elon Musk has now banned Mastodon from Twitter and Twitter is declaring any link to there as “unsafe” https://twitter.com/...

• @repdonbeyer Rep. Don Beyer on x

  The link is not malicious, and clicking “continue” will simply take you to my account on Mastodon. Alternatively, you can find my account there at @RepDonBeyer@mas.to https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life @carnage4life on x

  If links to Mastodon are being blocked, I guess that answers the question on whether usage metrics are declining.

• @maxkennerly Max Kennerly on x

  Took only a month for Elon to change his view on Mastodon from being joke worthy to posing such a grave threat to Twitter that he's blocking every link to every server he can find. https://twitter.com/...

• @rstephens Robert Stephens on x

  Here comes the Power of Spite. Great new for Mastodon. https://twitter.com/...

• @emptywheel @emptywheel on x

  The reason y'all should get an account at Mastodon and not Post is bc it'll make Elmo cry.

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  Mastodon's pretty... pretty good tonight.

• @markos Markos Moulitsas on x

  For all the “LOL Mastodon” talk by @ElonMusk's cryptobros, Twitter wouldn't ban links to it unless he was actually worried. That's not a sign of confidence in his own product

• @ruskin147 Rory Cellan-Jones on x

  Confirming that Twitter is blocking Mastodon links. Isn't that anticompetitive behaviour? Hi @FCC https://twitter.com/...

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  So linking to mastodon appears now forbidden. The Mastodon account is fully suspended. If you share on Twitter that it's still possible to go to Mastodon and search for the Elon+Jet account and look up publicly available info then I presume it's ok. But 🤷🏻‍♂️ - his platform, rule…

• @bfriedmandc Brandon Friedman on x

  Nope. Tried again. Twitter will not allow me to post a tweet containing a Mastodon link. https://twitter.com/...

• @pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings on x

  It's very simple, every time you post a link to mastodon, an assassin somewhere in the US gets an antiaircraft missile

• @nycsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw on x

  “After Mastodon used Twitter to promote Mr. Sweeney's new account on Thursday, Twitter suspended Mastodon's account. As some journalists shared the news of Mastodon's suspension, their own accounts were suspended.”

• @dougjballoon @dougjballoon on x

  So Long, Farewell Elon Musk is the hottest Nazi since Rolf, and he's sent his critics clambering up the Alps to Post and Mastodon. Will his midlife crisis make him a lonely goat-heard or send him into the arms of someone sixteen going on seventeen? by Maureen Dowd

• @gabrielsnyder Gabriel Snyder on x

  Oh hilarious: Mastodon links are now considered “malware” and “spammy” ... you can find me at @gs(at)mas(dot)to https://twitter.com/...

• @astroehlein Andrew Stroehlein on x

  Twitter has also suspended the account of its rival, Mastodon. ⚠️ And look at this tweet I just tried to do but which got rejected - look at the reason: Twitter doesn't even allow you to link to Mastodon in tweets now... All more reasons for you to join Mastodon... https://twitte…

• @crecenteb Brian Crecente on x

  Elon Musk banned the official #Mastodon account. This is days after marking some links to Mastodon as sensitive. Loving the Freedom of Speech, Elon. https://twitter.com/...

• @samgustin Sam Gustin on x

  And in doing so, breaking a key component of internet architecture: the hyperlink. With completely spurious and bogus “unsafe link” notices. https://twitter.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @sirmaejor ... We're fixing a Legacy bug. Should be working tomorrow.

• @matthewbevan Matt Bevan on x

  Twitter Spaces has disappeared from the app lol

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  And yes, of course, Musk was in the middle of this. Spaces was shut down for all Twitter users after Musk was in a Twitter Spaces about the banned journalists, and one of the these banned journalists asked a question from Musk. This was the answer. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @semaforben Ben Smith on x

  There's a point in platform decline when only the trolls thrive ... https://twitter.com/...

• @katienotopoulos Katie Notopoulos on x

  I've been kicked off a lot of platforms: Friendster, MySpace (a few times), FourSquare, Tinder, and been suspended here at least twice in the past. But it still brings me a smile to have completely destroyed the entire Spaces functionality

• @marcowenjones Marc Owen Jones on x

  Twitter spaces is down because they are fixing a ‘legacy bug’. I am pretty sure that the legacy bug is allowing suspended accounts to join a space. As you can see below, the suspended journalists including ‘elonjet’, were all part of the space that Musk participated in 😅 https://…

• @sirmaejor Sir Maejor on x

  Hey @elonmusk what's going on with Twitter Spaces? It's glitching and won't allow ppl in rooms. @verified @twitterspaces