After banning @elonjet, which he said he wouldn’t, Musk has now banned @joinmastodon after it tweeted that users could follow the jet-tracking account on their platform.
It appears Washington Post journalist @drewharwell was suspended as well for pointing out that Mastodon was suspended for promoting ElonJet, which I also just did in the above tweet.
New York Times journalist Ryan Mac has now been suspended for merely mentioning Musk’s suspension of Mastodon and ElonJet.
CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan has also been suspended for tweeting about Musk’s suspension of Mastodon and ElonJet.
Mashable’s Matt Binder has now been suspended for covering Musk’s suspension of Mastodon and ElonJet.
The Intercept’s Micah Lee how now been suspended for tweeting about Musk’s suspension of Mastodon and ElonJet.
The account for journalist Keith Olbermann has been suspended as well after similarly tweeting about Musk's suspension of Mastodon, ElonJet, and other journalists.
Verge Journalist Alex Heath reports that Ella Irwin, the head of Twitter’s Trust & Safety, vaguely has responded to the suspensions by pointing to the new policy regarding open source location tracking.
Elon Musk appears to be defending the recent suspension of numerous journalists by arguing that merely referencing the ElonJet account is akin to "doxxing."
Voice of America journalist Steve Herman has now been suspended for linking to the Mastodon account of ElonJet.
Twitter is now blocking all links to the social media platform Mastodon.
Users attempting to share a link to the platform are met with a warning that claims the link "has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful."
Musk is now arguing that sharing links to the Mastodon account of ElonJet, which uses publicly available radar data to track his private jet, is akin to giving out "assassination coordinates."
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