Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with no explanation

Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by sillysaurusx on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:16PM (#34009477)

I read it that way at first too, but I think he’s saying that’s why he originally suspected the bans were due to an algorithm gone awry. And that’s a reasonable worry — it was possible that a particular url was causing the accounts to be banned, e.g. if Musk added ElonJet to some kind of internal ban list, that’d do it.

pg’s still on the side of journalism.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by bfgoodrich on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:23PM (#34009567)

No, he's claiming the journalists "coordinated" a campaign to share external links to the jet tracker. Some of them admit that they did (not "coordinated" -- alternate sites of this public data has been very widely shared), but others are at a loss and claim they did no such thing. One had reported on an LAPD statement -- that despite the imminent harm Elon claimed, they hadn't gotten a crime report and actually had to reach out to Elon's people -- and shortly after got suspended.

Elon is constantly leveraging the "for the children" cover for his petulance.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by sillysaurusx on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:30PM (#34009657)

After re-reading the tweet, I’m honestly not sure anymore. What a strange situation.

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