Twitter suspends journalists from CNN and The New York Times who have been covering Elon Musk

Twitter has suspended the profiles of several high-profile journalists who have been covering the billionaire and the social media company.

Journalists Ryan Mac of the New York Times, Drew Harwell of The Washington Post, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, Mashable’s Matt Binder, The Intercept’s Michah Lee, along with Aaron Rupar, Tony Webster and Keith Olberman all found his account. Twitter. accounts suspended Thursday.

Musk’s latest move comes a day after he banned an account tracking his private plane, @elonjet, despite declaring a month ago that his “commitment to free speech” was so serious that he would leave it alone. .

Some of the journalists are believed to have been banned from posting links to Mastadon, a Twitter-like platform, where @elonjet migrated to after yesterday’s ban. Mastadon’s Twitter account was also suspended on Thursday.

This is a developing story.

Both Elon Musk and Twitter have remained silent on the matter, and the billionaire’s only communications since the news of the suspensions were a declaration of his love for Barbara Streisand.

“I love Barbara Streisand lol,” she tweeted Thursday night.

The New York Times said Mac Twitter gave it no explanation for his suspension, according to nbc news.

“We hope that all journalists’ accounts will be restored and that Twitter will provide a satisfactory explanation for this action,” the Times told the outlet.

Rupar said he had “no idea” why he was suspended, according to NBC journalist Ben Collins.

He noted that Harwell’s account was suspended shortly after he tweeted about the suspension of Mastadon’s Twitter account. In that Tweet, Harwell pointed out that @elonjet had moved to Mastadon.

Each of the other banned journalists had recently been covering Musk.