Twitter Purges Several Journalists Who Cover Elon Musk
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7v89b/twitter-purges-several-journalists-who-cover-elon-musk
On Thursday night, Twitter banned a number of prominent journalists who had reported on Elon Musk and in some cases criticized him.
Some of the banned journalists—Mashable's Matt Binder and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan, for example—had shared an update from the LAPD on Musk's recent claim that a man had attacked a car carrying his child, saying that no crime report had been filed (Motherboard has not independently verified this quote). Others, as captured in a Twitter thread by NBC's Ben Collins, merely tweeted about Musk's ban of competitor social media platform Mastodon's Twitter account, which also happened on Thursday. New York Times reporter Ryan Mac was also banned.