JUST IN: Twitter will ban links to other social media services and suspend accounts that try to direct Twitter users to alternative platforms.
Twitter banned the accounts of several high-profile journalists from top news organizations without explanation.
Despite the bans, Twitter says it will still "allow paid advertisement/promotion for any of the prohibited social media platforms."Notably absent from the list is TikTok, one of the internet's fastest-growing social media platforms whose links to China have sparked national security concerns among US policymakers.
Now, that practice has been formalized into official Twitter policy, a move that could further raise eyebrows among Twitter's regulators.
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