The suspensions affected several journalists and commentators, including Texas Observer journalist Steven Monacelli, Ken Klippensten of The Intercept, podcaster Rob Rousseau, and Alan MacLeod of MintPress News. The landing page for their accounts says it’s been suspended, but does not give any explanation as to why. A message on the profiles simply states “X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.”
The ban didn’t just hit journalists either. Several prominent-left leaning accounts were also purged from the website, including the account for the TrueAnon podcast and @zei_squirrel, a cartoon squirrel that tweets media criticism of figures like Glenn Greenwald.
This isn’t the first time the site has banned reporters. In April, it permanently suspended Wired reporter Dell Cameron after he spoke with a hacker who accessed conservative pundit Matt Walsh’s emails. In December of 2022, it suspended the accounts of ten journalists who’d been critical of site owner Elon Musk.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-x-twitter-journalists-banning-spree-1851151593
https://twitter.com/liz_franczak/status/1744712132015370527
Edit: they’re back now
Every time I check back to see how Twitter/X is doing since Musk’s takeover, the more it seems to devolve into a glorified alt-tech platform (e.g. Gab, Parler) and porn site. Can’t he just let Twitter die peacefully?
If you come for rachel jake, you best not miss
stalin shouldn’t have stopped at berlin
Is this an Israel related purge or something else? I can’t really figure out the common feature of all these accounts getting simultaneously nuked. Obviously they’re on a list together for having something in common.
Honestly sounds more like Musk got shit faced. Them coming back confirms it in my book.
Musk making the Twitter devs give him his own ban button is the exact mix of pathetic and funny we’ve come to expect.
If this is the case that means he’s aware of trueanon, and may have even listened to the series. Now imagining musk seething while listening to brace say “HIS FACE LOOKS LIKE FUNGUS” 😂
: “MEIN GOTT, ZE UNTERSMENCH KNOW! SHUT IT DOWN!”
