Then Twitter Censored Journalists Who Wrote About @ElonJet
As if banning @ElonJet wasn’t enough, Twitter banned journalists who wrote about it. According to Musk, who tweeted through the ordeal, @ElonJet constituted a violation of the company’s doxxing policy. Apparently, writing about @ElonJet counts as doxxing, too. Journalists who tweeted links to their own stories in publications like the Washington Post had their accounts suspended until they took the tweets. Read that again. It was a violation of Twitter rules to tweet a link to the Washington Post. A total of 10 journalists had their accounts suspended.
Musk initially called the pans a “permanent suspension.” Then he changed his mind. (Noticing a pattern?) Musk created a Twitter poll asking if and when he should reinstate the journalists who were banned for tweeting about the ElonJets account. But after his first poll showed that most people wanted the journalists to be reinstated “now,” Musk apparently didn’t like that result.
“Sorry, too many options, will redo the poll,” Musk tweeted.
