Drew HarwellThis is what Twitter is now defining as "doxxing people's location." A factual piece of reporting about the company blocking a competitor. Can't do anything until I delete it.
The link in this tweet - https://t.co/X8n9xSRld9 - just referred to itself. The tweet included two screenshots (below) but no direct link to @elonjet or the flight-tracking data at ADS-B Exchange. The tweet does not break the rules, unless there is a new rule saying you can't acknowledge that flight-tracking data exists on the internet.
For anyone wondering, I'm still unable to access Twitter until I delete this tweet, which is factual journalism that doesn't even break the location rule Twitter enacted a few days ago. The account isn't marked as suspended anymore, but I can't use it or see tweets from people I follow. Using Mastodon exclusively for now and actually really enjoying it.
JuliePosettiBeen five days since Twitter suspended a bunch of journalists, including me, for tweeting out factual reporting. And we're still suspended.
CNN's @donieosullivan, NYT's Ryan Mac and I can't access Twitter until we delete specific tweets that they said included "private information" but were actually just reporting.
Journalists Linette Lopez and Susan Li, who also covered Musk, are still suspended. No explanation given.
I Voted for McGovern@drewharwell'm sure it's a pain in the short term, but longer term it is a badge of honor
Condalmo.@drewharwell @donieosullivan Stay here. Even if he reinstates your accounts. ESPECIALLY if he reinstates your accounts. That's textbook abusive relationship dynamics.
Karen Strickholm
June Casagrande@drewharwell @donieosullivan Soon, it may not matter because you'll have a bigger active following here.
Gina@drewharwell @donieosullivan Thank you for not deleting them.
Ukraine Will Win@ginamsi @drewharwell @donieosullivan
Yes, thank you, thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you for NOT DELETING THE TWEET.
I don't see how real journalists can participate on a platform that BLATANTLY abuses journalists. Come on man, I wish journalists would show just a tiny bit of courage.
Kynyc@drewharwell @donieosullivan please also mention Chad Loder etc
Old Man Mike@donieosullivan @drewharwell if Musk does not permit certain writing then how can a journalist contribute content to that platform and retain their ethical and moral position?
Vivian O’Malley@oldmanmike @donieosullivan @drewharwell Excellent point. In the vein of If you lay down with pigs, expect to get muddy.
Ingrid Brodnig@drewharwell @donieosullivan Hi, I‘m a journalist from Austria - is it okay for you to post a screenshot of this mastodon post on Twitter? Of course, I would credit you as the source
US Saved 2020!@donieosullivan @drewharwell Twitter has really become a joke. It’s being managed less professionally than most six-year-olds’ lemonade stands. I hope you get your access back, but I applaud your standing by your reporting and the fact that it clearly doesn’t violate any stated rules. I hope you’ll help to lead the migration here for news and other important information.
Khaylie@SaveUS2017 @donieosullivan @drewharwell Actually the lemonade stand run by a group of 8 year olds near where I live is run far more professionally and it is good lemonade.
Anne Ursu@drewharwell @donieosullivan Sir, if the media companies in general are offering their reporters support and taking any kind of stand? It feels like everyone is being hung out to dry (or actively punished, as NBC did.)
@KarenStrickholm @drewharwell @donieosullivan they suspended Ben Collins for his reporting on Elon Musk.
Jalyced@anneursu @KarenStrickholm @drewharwell @donieosullivan Not surprising. There is little in the news about Musk since this began. Today was the first day I was able to find anything and it was regarding Tesla stock pricing. Somebody is pulling the strings and that’s exactly what Musk wants to do. Control the message. He isn’t the only villain. Mastodon looks like a place for journalists to write freely. I miss true investigative reporting.
@jalyced @anneursu @drewharwell @donieosullivan All the news rooms run so lean, and investigative reporting often takes $$$. Why does it always have to boil down to the almighty dollar.
@KarenStrickholm @anneursu @drewharwell @donieosullivan the Oligarchs wish to control the message. Independent writers/reporters will have to do the investigative reporting, but you are correct, that takes money especially if travel is needed to investigate
christian crumlish
Dean Baratta بطبطبط@drewharwell @donieosullivan Any talk about Washington Post, CNN or others setting up their own instance here?
norcalkitty@drewharwell
It's honestly super crazy...the fact that they have no response for linette is very telling
@donieosullivan
It's honestly super crazy...the fact that they have no response for linette is very telling
@donieosullivan
Grandpa Don@drewharwell
Stop agonizong over it and just say "good riddance" to a toxic atmosphere where journalists cannot do their jobs. Get cnn, wapo, nyt, et al to run ads saying tw is no longer a channel, to find ya'll via (list the links the muskie bans). He is the bully on the playground who should find himself standing there all alone.
Stop agonizong over it and just say "good riddance" to a toxic atmosphere where journalists cannot do their jobs. Get cnn, wapo, nyt, et al to run ads saying tw is no longer a channel, to find ya'll via (list the links the muskie bans). He is the bully on the playground who should find himself standing there all alone.
Shiro@drewharwell @donieosullivan Leave #Twitter in the dustbin of history. Abusive relationships are evil especially when reporting the truth. There are better ways to engage other than the bird site.
JambiBlue@drewharwell @donieosullivan After all this, do you even want to go back?
Alchemist@drewharwell @donieosullivan If you're not smooching his blubbery pink bottom with accolades and sunshine, he wants you to go away. Just like Trump.
Gnommon@drewharwell @donieosullivan don’t bother trying to get your accounts back. Time to move on.
What's it to you?@drewharwell @donieosullivan You're close to exiting an abusive relationship.
Each day, it will get easier, but there will be points where you stumble -- that's okay. Give yourself space to grieve and, when you're ready, start to fill that space with new, better news sources that don't mistreat you.
You are no one's punching bag. You are special and you are loved.
Be strong and shine bright. You are worth it.
Lord Robson-Hemmings of Woke@drewharwell @donieosullivan don’t go back - stay here the outlook is much nicer
Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥@drewharwell @donieosullivan Twitter is not worth it.
MastoDon Juan@drewharwell @donieosullivan hopefully many of you are now building decentralized socmed infrastructure instead of relying on a centralized site that can be bought and destroyed by a single madman
@drewharwell @donieosullivan part of me appreciates that the #nothingburger of #twittergate and all the fake handwringing over #freespeech happened before Elon decided to suspend journalists. The hypocrites who thought showing Hunter Biden’s nudes was their free speech get to explain how a free press isn’t free speech.
DGiant@drewharwell @donieosullivan Re-tooting in case others need to see. Twitter has been forever changed for the worse by Musk
Miles Offit... 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦@drewharwell @donieosullivan Hold the line. Thank you. 💪🏾
Variant488This was the last straw for me with Twitter. Deleted their app from the phone and basically stopped using it. Just can't see supporting an entity that is silencing legit journalists.
🌊Ann Morris🐕🍀🌎🌊🌊@drewharwell @donieosullivan Musk M.O. is to pretend to reinstate if offending (by his judgment) statement is deleted. You will STILL not be reinstated AND the offensive (to him) statement will be gone. Which is what he wanted without doing it himself.
MW1CFN@drewharwell @donieosullivan Just abandon Twitter! There is no need to be complicit in Musk's nonsense. Ditch it, or you will forever be the play things of the megalomaniac.
Sterling Hammer 
@drewharwell @donieosullivan Journalists should leave Twitter en masse and simply just monitor it at this point. Now its readily apparent its not a home for journalists.
toxtethogrady@drewharwell @donieosullivan Tesla shares are down $9 today. And shareholders suspect it's Musk's obsession with Twitter...
Equationeer@drewharwell @donieosullivan All of you are brave people, I don't think it gets enough air time the fact the targeting journalists is nothing new and that when we let one Space Karen do it with Tweets it could lead to much more troubling targeting of journalists. Then there's the former Cheeto'n'Chief as well as the current political climate. You are all brave, braver than I am, I'm so glad you are out there doing your jobs and reporting.
David Kaye@drewharwell @donieosullivan the fact that outlets have continued to engage/post on twitter in light of this intimidation says a lot about priorities. profit over principle.
@drewharwell @donieosullivan I've been suspended too, 5-days now, for posting on Nancy Mace's post, "pat yourself on the back" literally! She reported me for that! No clue if I'm done on the Nazi bird. I'm on here - no clue how to navigate this site and Post - which I find easier to navigate.
Ron Miller@drewharwell @donieosullivan This was the last straw for me, Drew. No defeat baby, no surrender.
Chaoddity@drewharwell @donieosullivan He doesnt need a reason- he owns the website and is using it as a tool for striking out at people he doesnt like and rewarding people who stroke his ego.
Easy, as I'm not making my living by reach on twitter: Delete your account and make me believe there is sth. as a "journalist".
Elon did NOT "unban" all banned "journalists", just some.
What if you deleted that post on Elon's request? What is next? 1984? Take her?
I 'd like him to get back to Engineering, he is a genius in that discipline.
I currently like, follow, boost every twitter refugee to help.
Plus: You can use the "Banned by Elon" Badge of Honour:
Anita Larkens 
@drewharwell @donieosullivan
#Elon is now attacking the US government and speeding down the rabbit hole. I think he's insane.
#Elon is now attacking the US government and speeding down the rabbit hole. I think he's insane.
John Refior@drewharwell @donieosullivan Twitter is dead. No one can use it without giving at least a little indirect support to Trump (and other insurrectionists) with all the free ad time Musk gave him
The Lone Apple 🍎@drewharwell @donieosullivan I tend to reject conspiracies that put anyone as some nefarious string puller, so I don't view Musk in that way. I see him as he appears to be - a man-child who has enormous power through wealth and no control over his impulses. I don't believe there is a plan in his mind to any of this - it's all his minute to minute whims on full display.
Rowena Pelayo@drewharwell @donieosullivan Twitter should no longer have any cultural, political or news-making influence. It is not neutral territory. Your reporting will have no credibility if access to the platform requires you to obey the owner’s whims. Journalists should pack up and move on. You are what gives the platform relevance, not the other way around
@drewharwell @donieosullivan no explanation necessary as clearly it’s for saying something Mr. Free Speech Absolutist doesn’t like.
Barry Schwartz 🫖It’s not news anymore, and anyway it is about YOU. I suggest you and other #journalists move to a place where YOU won’t be the news.
#Musk owns #Twitter. So him pushing people around in it was barely news to start with. It only became such enormously big news when #reporters could talk about themselves.
Why has no reporter noticed that Musk has said NOTHING about the #Artemis1 mission? I suppose because it didn’t involve reporters.
climate voter/radical oldie@chemoelectric @drewharwell @donieosullivan Also, this is a big topic on TV news outlets. The spokespersons on these outlets all have twitter accounts but I don't see them saying they are moving or suggesting others move.
@tmstreet @drewharwell @donieosullivan
It’s paydirt for them. They get to aggrandize themselves as the victims in a blown up scandal.
But really it’s just a financially shaky service company that got bought -- lock, stock, and barrel -- by a jackass. So now the service is REALLY unreliably available, but they won’t admit it.
sʌǝu ᴧɐɹʞǝʃ 🤘🇪🇪🤘@drewharwell @donieosullivan it's a powerplay by an oligarch.
pinkandblackgirl@drewharwell @donieosullivan the explanation is that he’s a free speech absolutist until he doesn’t like the free speech you offer. It’s pay to play there — fee speech