December 2022 Twitter suspensions
journalists suspended from Twitter on December 15, 2022
On December 15, 2022, Twitter suspended the accounts of ten journalists who had covered the company and its owner, Elon Musk. They included reporters Keith Olbermann, Steven L. Herman, and Donie O'Sullivan, as well as journalists from The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and The Intercept. Musk cited an incident between "a crazy stalker" and a car with his child as a justification for the suspensions. Posters on behalf of the owners of the accounts said that the suspensions were permanent. On December 16, 2022, Musk said that account access would be restricted for only seven days, and on December 17, some accounts were reportedly restored, with Musk citing Twitter community polls as the reason for the reversal.
Twitter officials initially offered no explanation for their decision. They later said it was due to violations of a new rule, created one day before the bans took place. The policy change prohibited accounts from sharing real-time flight information of private jets. The bans were allegedly in response to the @ElonJet account, which tracks Musk's private jet. The account and other similar accounts were suspended from Twitter on December 14, 2022, but continued operating on Facebook, Mastodon, and other social media platforms.
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