Hours after Twitter”permanently suspendedAfter more than half a dozen journalists from outlets including CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post reported on an Elon Musk-related account, the man himself appeared briefly in a Twitter space hosted by BuzzFeed News technology reporter , Katie Notopoulos. Thursday night.
“Everyone is going to get the same treatment,” Musk, the CEO of Twitter, said in defense of the decision to suspend reporters. “They are not special just because you are a journalist.”
Shortly after reporters tried to question him further about the suspensions, he fled Space.
earlier in the nightMusk had falsely accused journalists of publishing his real-time location, which he referred to as “basically murder coordinates.” He said doing so was a “direct violation of Twitter’s terms of service.”
Reporters had been covering the Twitter story. banning @ElonJet, an account that tweeted the whereabouts of Musk’s personal private jet using publicly available data, then suddenly found its own Twitter accounts suspended. On Thursday, Twitter banned the personal account of Jack Sweeney, the Florida college student who ran @ElonJet, as well as the official account of Mastodona rival to Twitter that had linked to @ElonJet’s presence on its own platform.
Musk appeared at the Space, titled “#saveryanmac #macpack” (after former BuzzFeed News reporter and current New York Times reporter Ryan Mac, one of the suspended journalists), more than two hours after it began.
