UPDATE: It’s been a big night on Twitter. Capped off when Elon Musk suddenly left a Twitter Spaces conversation with some of the people he had just suspended.
Just hours after the purge, Musk appeared in a brief Twitter Spaces event with a group of journalists, hosted by Buzzfeed’s Katie Notopoulos. Notopolous’ account remains active—however Harwell and other suspended reporters, including Matt Binder, were able to join theconversation due to an apparent glitch in the platform. Jack Sweeney, the college-age founder of the @ElonJet account, was also there.
“As I’m sure everyone who has been doxxed would agree, sharing real-time information about somebody’s location is inappropriate and I think everybody on this panel would not like that to be done to them. There is not going to be any distinction in the future between journalists and regular people, everyone is going to be treated the same. You’re not special because you’re a journalist. You’re a citizen, so no special treatment. You’re doxxed, you get suspended, end of story.
“In the course of reporting about ElonJet we posted links to ElonJet which are now not online and are now banned on Twitter,” Harwell replies. And Twitter also of course marks even the Instagram and Mastodon accounts of ElonJet as harmful using – we have to admit and acknowledge – using the same exact link blocking technique that you have criticized as part of the Hunter Biden New York Post story in 2020.
As a discussion ensued between the journalists after Musk’s departure, the stream suddenly disappeared. “Sorry it appears the Space cut out, screen went suddenly blank on my end and everyone got booted,”Before the sudden exit, @ElonJet’s Sweeney said he was unfazed. “Just because there’s always going to be people in the world that don’t like something you’re doing. I’m not going to stop doing what I enjoyed. I’ve said this even back in the day when it first came out.
Just one day prior, CNN’s O’Sullivan interviewed Sweeney, a 20-year-old college student, who revealed more details of Twitter’s attempts to shut down the account. The @ElonJet handle had long rankled Musk, Sweeney revealed in his
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