Via WaPo: Musk suspends journalists from Twitter, claims ‘assassination’ danger
Twitter suspended the accounts of more than half a dozen journalists from CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post and other outlets Thursday evening, as company owner Elon Musk accused the reporters of posting “basically assassination coordinates” for him and his family.
The Post has seen no evidence that any of the reporters did so.
The suspensions came without warning or initial explanation from Twitter. They took place a day after Twitter changed its policy on sharing “live location information” and suspended an account, @ElonJet, that had been using public flight data to share the location of Musk’s private plane.
Look, Twitter can ban what it likes. It does not violate the First Amendment in doing so, as it is a private company making a decision about who uses their product. Nothing stops others from sharing that same information (logic, I would note, that applies to the NY Post‘s Hunter Biden story or the all-important Hunter dick pics that are the subject of the “Twitter Files”).
But, it is awfully hard to claim to be a free speech absolutist and then ban journalists from reporting on a story you don’t like.
More on the jet story here: Musk bans Twitter account tracking his jet, threatens to sue creator.
Let me stress that the flight data in question is public information. (Not to be confused with the Hunter Biden photos, which were pubic, but decidedly not public).
