Casey NewtonDec 23, 2022
That @drewharwell is cool as hell: "Hell, no. I’m not deleting a tweet that contained factual information and didn’t violate anyone’s rules,” he said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/23/musk-twitter-journalists-suspended-elonjet/
Journalists who won’t delete Musk tweets remain locked out of Twitter

Musk suspended reporters from Twitter and later reinstated them, with a catch: They must delete tweets related to the account @ElonJet, which has tracked Musk’s plane using public data.

The Washington Post
Show threadJonathan StrayDec 23, 2022
@caseynewton I am sure @drewharwell is very cool indeed... but I also remember Twitter demanding the NY Post delete their tweet to the Hunter laptop story. Maybe something more systemic is wrong here.
Show threadDrew HarwellDec 23, 2022
@jonathanstray @caseynewton I'm not that cool. But just to compare: Twitter reversed its NY Post decision (based on flawed hack/disinfo fears) within two days and has basically never stopped apologizing for it. New Twitter has blocked journalists and others for more than a week, and counting, for sharing public data and reporting because the owner didn't like it
Show threadJonathan Stray
@drewharwell @caseynewton It is wrong and stupid that you and other journalists are still banned. However, the NY Post account suspension lasted for 16 days (link blocking lasted for only two, as you say) and was reversed only after Dorsey was hauled in front of Congress.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/30/twitter-new-york-post-freeze-policy-reversal
Twitter lifts freeze from New York Post account after policy reversal

Latest move in an ongoing saga comes after CEO Jack Dorsey was grilled by Republican lawmakers during a Senate hearing on Wednesday

The Guardian
Dec 23, 2022 at 8:00pmWeb
Show threadDave Coustan (Extraface)Dec 23, 2022
@jonathanstray @drewharwell @caseynewton your retelling of this story seems to me missing a whole lot of important nuance, and yet the story of Drew’s removal is missing zero nuance as far as I can tell. Perhaps the equivalency isn’t as strong as this comparison would like to suggest. Might even be ludicrous to compare the unilateral decisions of a guy who fired his trust and safety team to the documented decisions of a trust and safety team