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1/ Ben Collins NBC: “Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell.

Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.

The NYTimes' @rmac18 has been suspended from Twitter. He's been on the Elon Musk beat.

Mashable's @mattbinder has been suspended from Twitter. He's been on the Elon Musk beat.
Journalist @webster has been suspended.

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2/ “ The Intercept journalist @micahflee has been suspended. He had been writing critically about Elon Musk.

Political pundit @keitholbermann has been suspended by Twitter. He had been tweeting critically of Elon Musk.

Can confirm this is from @rmac18, the NYTimes reporter who was suspended from Twitter tonight.

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3/. Steve Herman, @W7VOA, the Chief National Correspondent for the U.S. government-funded Voice of America, also suspended from Twitter. You can find him on Mastodon

The Washington Post's @drewharwell, who was suspended from Twitter tonight after reporting on Elon Musk, has just posted this on his Mastodon account, which is @drewharwell.”

Mastodon is suspended from Twitter!

Free speech, my arse

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IS Melon Husk really free to ban whoever he likes on Twitter?
A third of the $42bn purchase price was raised in bonds. The investors in those bonds may not have voting rights but they stand ahead of shareholders to recover their loans and interest accruing on them. And no doubt there is senior (bank) debt, also non-voting, but there will be covenants which Husk has to honour.
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@onebiskuit no idea what is in the loan contracts or shareholder agreements.

I think the EU Commission have him in their sights (see articles) & would be surprised if the FTC don’t.

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Me neither, but long experience suggests to me that lenders only stay out of company management until they perceive that the incumbents have destroyed all equity value and are now eroding solvency for lenders. If Space Karen hasn’t already done that, I can’t think it will be long now before he does..
Dec 18, 2022 at 2:19pmWeb
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And while FTC, SEC and EU regulators may have him in their sights, they take their sweet time about it.
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@onebiskuit

That’s the nature of collecting evidence to shut down defences, I’m afraid.