Twitter has suspended accounts belonging to rival Mastodon and several journalists from well-known publications, including CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Independent. The platform claims that it is suspending accounts that pose a threat to others’ well-being as part of its new privacy policies. The reasons behind the suspension of Mastodon’s accounts are unclear, and more information from Twitter is needed. This follows the suspension of the ElonJet account earlier this week, which tracked the movements of Elon Musk’s private jet.
Musk commented on the suspension, stating that the same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else. He also indicated that Twitter suspended some journalists’ accounts as they posted his “exact real-time location, basically, assassination coordinates, in (obvious) direct violation of Twitter terms of service”.
However, he previously said that Twitter allows free speech from users tracking his private jet, referring to the suspended ElonJet account. When the owner of that account, Jack Sweeney, began stalking Musk and his associates, Twitter changed its privacy rules and stated that its updated private information policy prohibits users from sharing someone else’s live location.