Dec 16, 2022 13:03:00

Twitter freezes accounts of journalists who reported on Elon Mask's private jet turmoil one after another

Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter and became CEO, he has

unfrozen tens of thousands of accounts, including those of former President Donald Trump . Meanwhile, the Twitter accounts of multiple journalists who reported the news that ' the Twitter account that tracks Mr. Mask's private jet has been frozen ' have been frozen one after another.

Elon Musk's Twitter bans several prominent journalists without explanation | CNN Business
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/15/media/twitter-musk-journalists-hnk-intl/

Twitter abruptly suspends more than half a dozen journalists - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/15/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk/

Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell .

Rupar tells me he has 'no idea' why it happened.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 16, 2022

The freeze in question came after news broke that the Twitter account ElonJet ( @ElonJet ), which has more than 500,000 followers, had been frozen. ElonJet is an account operated by Mr. Jack Sweeney, who is a hobby and tracks private jets of celebrities, analyzes public information of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and transmits takeoff and landing information of Mr. Musk's private jet. was doing. Mr. Mask contacted Mr. Sweeney in January 2022and asked him to delete the account, but the negotiations were not settled and the account continued to be operated until December 2022. However, on December 14, 2022, ElonJet was suddenly frozen.

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The news that ElonJet was frozen was covered in unison by numerous media outlets. However, CNN reported that journalist Donnie O'Sullivan's account ( @donie ) was frozen. In addition, The Washington Post also reported that its journalist Drew Harwell's account ( @drewharwell ) has been frozen.

If you check Mr. O'Sullivan's account with ' Wayback Machine ', a service that accumulates website history, you can see that the account was functioning normally as of December 15, 2022 . However, at the time of writing the article, when I accessed Mr. O'Sullivan's account, a message was displayed indicating that it had been frozen as follows.

In addition to O'Sullivan and Harwell, journalist Ben Collins of NBC, Ryan Mack of The New York Times, Matt Binder of Mashable, and journalist and photographer Tony Webb . Several journalists, including Starr and Micah Lee of The Intercept, have reported having their accounts frozen after reporting on ElonJet.

Mr. Mack, one of the journalists whose account was frozen, reports that 'the freezing was done suddenly without prior notice' in a different account than the frozen account. CNN also said, ``It is concerning that many journalists, including CNN's Donnie O'Sullivan, have been impulsively and unjustly suspended. is a matter of concern,” he said.

Some folks have asked so will try to answer here:
-This is the notification on my account.
-I was given no warning.
-I have no email or communication from the company about the reason for suspension.
-I report on Twitter, Elon Musk and his companies.

— Silenced Ryan Mac (@MacSilenced) December 16, 2022

December 16, 2022 13:56 Added:
At the time of writing this article, the above 'Mr. Mac's other account' could be viewed normally, but when I checked at 13:56, it was frozen.

The above tweet can be found on the Wayback Machine.