Taylor LorenzDec 23, 2022
“Hell, no. I’m not deleting a tweet that contained factual information and didn’t violate anyone’s rules.
It’s [Musk’s] platform. He can ban anyone he wants. And we can point out how he’s making up pretextual rules that just so happen to target journalism he doesn’t like,” said @drewharwell
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/23/musk-twitter-journalists-suspended-elonjet/ #twittermigration #twitterexodus #elonmusk #news #journalism
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 threadNate Bowling (نيت بولينج)

@taylorlorenz @drewharwell

This is, at best, unfortunate:

"Aaron Rupar, an independent journalist, had his account reinstated after he agreed to Twitter’s demand that he delete a tweet linking to ElonJet’s Facebook page.

Rupar said he didn’t think the tweet violated any rules, but he weighed the platform’s demand against the prospect of being cut off indefinitely from his 836,000 followers."

The platform is more important to him than the principle, so he bent the knee.

Dec 23, 2022 at 11:38pmWeb