Twitter suspends journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and the company

[Scott]

Twitter on Thursday evening suddenly suspended several high-profile journalists who cover the platform and Elon Musk, one of the richest people in the world, who acquired the company just a few months ago.

 

Hours after the suspensions took hold, Musk faced off with one of the journalists he suspended in a Twitter Space audio discussion before an audience of more than 30,000 listeners. The suspended journalist, along with several others, found a backdoor way onto the platform through the website's audio function.

 

“You doxx, you get suspended.

 

https://finance.yahoo.com/twitter-suspends-journalists-covering-elon-010856604.html

[Scott]

Twitter threatened with EU sanctions over journalists' ban

The EU has threatened Twitter owner Elon Musk with sanctions after several journalists covering the company had their accounts abruptly suspended.

Reporters for the New York Times, CNN and the Washington Post were among those locked out of their accounts.

EU commissioner Vera Jourova warned that the EU's Digital Services Act requires the respect of media freedom.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63996061

[riclag]

You doxx you get suspended , sounds reasonable !

Musk's tweet referred to Twitter's Wednesday suspension of @elonjet, an account tracking his private jet in real time using data available in the public domain. Musk had threatened legal action against the account's operator, saying his son had been mistakenly followed by a "crazy stalker".

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-suspends-accounts-several-journalists-2022-12-16/

 

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1 minute ago, riclag said:

You doxx you get suspended , sounds reasonable !

Musk's tweet referred to Twitter's Wednesday suspension of @elonjet, an account tracking his private jet in real time using data available in the public domain. Musk had threatened legal action against the account's operator, saying his son had been mistakenly followed by a "crazy stalker".

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-suspends-accounts-several-journalists-2022-12-16/

 

Doxxing is about releasing private information. The information that Sweeney posts is public. Anyone wishing to harm Musk doesn't need Sweeney's help. 

What's more, not all the people who were suspended had anything to do with elonjet.

And speaking of jets, it looks like Musk is crashing and burning.

His goal seems to antagonize everyone except his right wing fan base.

[Tug]

Seems to me that the space Karen isent  for free speech he doesn’t like .the info on his jet is public maybe he should have invested in Donnie’s nfts  ???? instead of Twitter ???? 

[Scott]

And now he is looking for investors:

Elon Musk's team is seeking new investors for Twitter

 

The managing director of Elon Musk’s family office is seeking new equity investors for Twitter as users revolt, advertisers flee, and debt payments loom, according to two people familiar with the fundraising effort.

 

Musk’s money manager, Jared Birchall, reached out to potential investors this week, offering shares of Twitter at the same price, $54.20, that Musk paid to take the company private in October, the people said.

 

“Over recent weeks we’ve received numerous inbound requests to invest in Twitter,” it read, according to a copy reviewed by Semafor.

 

https://www.semafor.com/article/12/16/2022/elon-musks-team-is-seeking-new-investors-for-twitter

[Tropposurfer]

Musk; Came form a background of Apartheid. His life until he emigrated to the USA was as an entrenched member of the white-supremacist elite of South Africa. A system of supreme racist evil and hatred.

Father was an Afrikaner who made his millions in years of very shady gem dealings, and lived as part of that system and grew rich off its exploitation and complicity.

Musk himself has invented very little in fact; He is a corporate raider of sorts and has scooped up others ideas and smaller companies and claimed their inventing and developments as his own.

His recent coming out more loudly and publicly on the side of what can only be called white-supremacist, racist, anti-semitic, anti-democratic institutions and people is no surprise.

Henry Ford was a vile anti-semite and white supremacist too so let's not be fooled and swayed into equating the ability to make money and create mega-industry with any measure of common human decency and morality.   

Edited December 17, 2022 by Tropposurfer

[wombat]

24 minutes ago, Tropposurfer said:

Musk; Came form a background of Apartheid. His life until he emigrated to the USA was as an entrenched member of the white-supremacist elite of South Africa. A system of supreme racist evil and hatred.

Father was an Afrikaner who made his millions in years of very shady gem dealings, and lived as part of that system and grew rich off its exploitation and complicity.

Musk himself has invented very little in fact; He is a corporate raider of sorts and has scooped up others ideas and smaller companies and claimed their inventing and developments as his own.

His recent coming out more loudly and publicly on the side of what can only be called white-supremacist, racist, anti-semitic, anti-democratic institutions and people is no surprise.

Henry Ford was a vile anti-semite and white supremacist too so let's not be fooled and swayed into equating the ability to make money and create mega-industry with any measure of common human decency and morality.   

Behind every great fortune is a crime so the story goes.

The mould hasn't been broken yet

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48 minutes ago, Tropposurfer said:

Musk; Came form a background of Apartheid. His life until he emigrated to the USA was as an entrenched member of the white-supremacist elite of South Africa. A system of supreme racist evil and hatred.

Father was an Afrikaner who made his millions in years of very shady gem dealings, and lived as part of that system and grew rich off its exploitation and complicity.

Musk himself has invented very little in fact; He is a corporate raider of sorts and has scooped up others ideas and smaller companies and claimed their inventing and developments as his own.

His recent coming out more loudly and publicly on the side of what can only be called white-supremacist, racist, anti-semitic, anti-democratic institutions and people is no surprise.

Henry Ford was a vile anti-semite and white supremacist too so let's not be fooled and swayed into equating the ability to make money and create mega-industry with any measure of common human decency and morality.   

To be fair to Musk, a practice I hate to engage in, his father ran for office as a member of an anti-apartheid party. On an ethnic basis, it was the Afrikaaners who were the main supporters of apartheid. Musk's family is not Afrikaans. 

[Bkk Brian]

One of the journalists, Bari Wiess, that QElon trusted to investigate, release and report on the twitter files is kicking back at his latest decisions and having some reflective thoughts on what QElon is really doing. 

 

QElon not happy............lol, claims she's trying to keep one foot in both camps, I thought being no bias was exactly that!!

 

 

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603851100569812992

 

Article by Bari Weiss

Our Reporting at Twitter

What was his goal in asking us to exhume the so-called Twitter Files? And why did the man obsessed with outer space decide to spend $44 billion on a social media platform that has made most of us feel more claustrophobic? 

Musk promises that the future of Twitter will be a “level playing field” and that it will be “consistent and transparent,” he believes “the algorithm should be open-source, so people can critique it,” but if the story of Old Twitter is about the biases and prejudices and power trips of the company’s former overlords, the question is what Musk will now do with the powerful tools they created? What does it mean when the owner of Twitter tweets that his pronouns are “Prosecute/Fauci”? 

https://www.thefp.com/p/why-we-went-to-twitter

Edited December 17, 2022 by Bkk Brian

[herfiehandbag]

5 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

What does it mean when the owner of Twitter tweets that his pronouns are “Prosecute/Fauci”? 

It means:

1) he has fully embraced the lunatic fringe of American right wing politics;

2) he has no concept of the role and correct use of pronouns in the English language.

[Bkk Brian]

6 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

It means:

1) he has fully embraced the lunatic fringe of American right wing politics;

2) he has no concept of the role and correct use of pronouns in the English language.

He went even further than that:

 

"As for Fauci, he lied to Congress and funded gain-of-function research that killed millions of people. Not awesome imo."

 

Another journo bites the dust, unrelated to those earlier, this one because of reporting on Tesla. Details in the twitter thread:

 

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1603826676043026432

 

 

[spidermike007]

The great man appears to be quite sensitive to criticism and willing to engage in censorship, after claiming he would not. It is obvious his wealth has gotten to his head and he is not wearing his power lightly or with grace. 

 

Meanwhile his share holders at Tesla are revolting, as the stock has dropped more than 60%, and he appears to have lost interest in management of the company. Additionally many owners and investors are finding the brand increasingly toxic, due to his continued, unhinged ranting on Twitter. He appears to be losing the plot. 

[spidermike007]

2 hours ago, Tropposurfer said:

Musk; Came form a background of Apartheid. His life until he emigrated to the USA was as an entrenched member of the white-supremacist elite of South Africa. A system of supreme racist evil and hatred.

Father was an Afrikaner who made his millions in years of very shady gem dealings, and lived as part of that system and grew rich off its exploitation and complicity.

Musk himself has invented very little in fact; He is a corporate raider of sorts and has scooped up others ideas and smaller companies and claimed their inventing and developments as his own.

His recent coming out more loudly and publicly on the side of what can only be called white-supremacist, racist, anti-semitic, anti-democratic institutions and people is no surprise.

Henry Ford was a vile anti-semite and white supremacist too so let's not be fooled and swayed into equating the ability to make money and create mega-industry with any measure of common human decency and morality.   

Never been fooled by that. Name a few billionaires who are truly decent people, and possess at least some morality. Ted Turner is one of the only ones I can think of. He is doing alot of good work with his land management, and does not seem to be the slightest bit interested in increasing his fortune, at a cost to humanity. Quite the opposite of Musk, Bezos, the Koch Brothers, Trump, and countless others. 

[mikeymike100]

As before Musk took over, bought Twitter, the execs and CEO were banning, or suspending people like Trump, Jordan Peterson, Charlie Kirk etc, because it was and still is a private company and they had every right, so surely Musk has that same right, its effectively his company?

[Bkk Brian]

His polls finished, so now the journalists need to be reinstated...................lol

 

[Bkk Brian]

40 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

As before Musk took over, bought Twitter, the execs and CEO were banning, or suspending people like Trump, Jordan Peterson, Charlie Kirk etc, because it was and still is a private company and they had every right, so surely Musk has that same right, its effectively his company?

If they are breaking policies then yes sure, but its a farcical and hypocritical to claim to run Twitter as a free speech platform then go straight in an ban people who criticize you. He has no credibility, even his ex wife had to point out his lies.

 

Musk: "Criticizing me all day long is totally fine"

 

[relixator]

Elon Musk has singlehandedly done more to restore free speech on social media, take down violent Antifa  networks, and expose the corruption of the FBI/Big Tech censorship apparatus than the entire Republican Party combined

[ozimoron]

2 hours ago, mikeymike100 said:

As before Musk took over, bought Twitter, the execs and CEO were banning, or suspending people like Trump, Jordan Peterson, Charlie Kirk etc, because it was and still is a private company and they had every right, so surely Musk has that same right, its effectively his company?

The difference is Musk is now banning journalists, not just pundits.

[AndyFoxy]

29 minutes ago, relixator said:

Elon Musk has singlehandedly done more to restore free speech on social media, take down violent Antifa  networks, and expose the corruption of the FBI/Big Tech censorship apparatus than the entire Republican Party combined

I agree

[Foghorn]

And listen to the looney left cry when the shoe is on the other foot , 

[relixator]

The media personalities are the same people that have done little (if any) reporting on the outrageous collusion between government Swamp creatures and the left-wing activists at Twitter to squelch bad press on the Biden family corruption. They were not outraged that Trump and other conservative voices were silenced, when the NYPost was censored for reporting Biden crime family news, factual news. They didn’t care that respected and renowned members of the medical community were banned from a social media platform for daring to offer alternative views on the Covid-19 narrative, or disagreeing with governments dictatorial edicts.
Yet, they are very choked and freaked out now, as several of these left-wing “journalists” have had their accounts suspended for sharing Elon Musk’s real-time location, which comes on the heels of a balaclava-clad man following a vehicle which was carrying Musk’s son at the time. (News flash, doxxing isn’t journalism.)

They are walking contradictions, and they’re driving the country into the ground.

 

Edited December 17, 2022 by relixator

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11 minutes ago, relixator said:

The media personalities are the same people that have done little (if any) reporting on the outrageous collusion between government Swamp creatures and the left-wing activists at Twitter to squelch bad press on the Biden family corruption. They were not outraged that Trump and other conservative voices were silenced, when the NYPost was censored for reporting Biden crime family news, factual news. They didn’t care that respected and renowned members of the medical community were banned from a social media platform for daring to offer alternative views on the Covid-19 narrative, or disagreeing with governments dictatorial edicts.
Yet, they are very choked and freaked out now, as several of these left-wing “journalists” have had their accounts suspended for sharing Elon Musk’s real-time location, which comes on the heels of a balaclava-clad man following a vehicle which was carrying Musk’s son at the time. (News flash, doxxing isn’t journalism.)

They are walking contradictions, and they’re driving the country into the ground.

 

And the same people who advocated for unrestricted speech,  have no problem with Musk restricting speech for those they oppose. Hypocrites much?

Edited December 17, 2022 by placeholder

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18 minutes ago, Foghorn said:

And listen to the looney left cry when the shoe is on the other foot , 

And listen to the rightwingers who have no problem with censorship when it's directed at people they don't agree with. So much for your alleged principles.

[relixator]

20 minutes ago, placeholder said:

And the same people who advocated for unrestricted speech,  have no problem with Musk restricting speech for those they oppose. Hypocrites much?

you doxx, break the rules..you get banned. Serves em right. Who are the hypocrites: those same libs that censored Biden crime story in Oct 2020, thats who.

The liberals think they can crush free speech and violate 1stA. Musk spent $44B to restore free speech and uphold the constitutional right to free speech.

 

The left wing swamp cabal trying to seize our guns, censor our free speech, flood our borders with millions of illegals, send our tax dollars overseas with Iran, UA and others target us as domestic terrorists for protesting, and lock us in prison w/o a fair trial are saying Trump is trying to destroy the Constitution.

 

You got it all backwards wrong folks, without the Musks.Trumps, et al, doing the right thing and good work of Patriots, the constitution will die!

[riclag]

6 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

One of the journalists, Bari Wiess, that QElon trusted to investigate, release and report on the twitter files is kicking back at his latest decisions and having some reflective thoughts on what QElon is really doing. 

 

QElon not happy............lol, claims she's trying to keep one foot in both camps, I thought being no bias was exactly that!!

 

 

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603851100569812992

 

Article by Bari Weiss

Our Reporting at Twitter

What was his goal in asking us to exhume the so-called Twitter Files? And why did the man obsessed with outer space decide to spend $44 billion on a social media platform that has made most of us feel more claustrophobic? 

Musk promises that the future of Twitter will be a “level playing field” and that it will be “consistent and transparent,” he believes “the algorithm should be open-source, so people can critique it,” but if the story of Old Twitter is about the biases and prejudices and power trips of the company’s former overlords, the question is what Musk will now do with the powerful tools they created? What does it mean when the owner of Twitter tweets that his pronouns are “Prosecute/Fauci”? 

https://www.thefp.com/p/why-we-went-to-twitter

What is a Qelon ? 

 What a hypocrite she is ,Weiss asks “  but if the story of Old Twitter is about the biases and prejudices and power trips of the company’s former overlords, the question is what Musk will now do with the powerful tools they created”?

My guess in response to her is

expose the left’s hypocrisy by using those powerful tools !

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 17, 2022 by riclag

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3 minutes ago, riclag said:

What is a Qelon ? 

 What a hypocrite she is ,Weiss asks “  but if the story of Old Twitter is about the biases and prejudices and power trips of the company’s former overlords, the question is what Musk will now do with the powerful tools they created”?

My guess in response to her is

expose the left hypocrisy by using those powerful tools !

 

 

 

 

 

 Weiss was one of the 2 journalists Musk released the Twitter files to? I would say that her criticism now of Musk's actions would make her the exact opposite of a hypocrite. Do you understand what hypocrisy means?

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6 minutes ago, relixator said:

you doxx, break the rules..you get banned. Serves em right. Who are the hypocrites: those same libs that censored Biden crime story in Oct 2020, thats who.

The liberals think they can crush free speech and violate 1stA. Musk spent $44B to restore free speech and uphold the constitutional right to free speech.

 

The left wing swamp cabal trying to seize our guns, censor our free speech, flood our borders with millions of illegals, send our tax dollars overseas with Iran, UA and others target us as domestic terrorists for protesting, and lock us in prison w/o a fair trial are saying Trump is trying to destroy the Constitution.

 

You got it all backwards wrong folks, without the Musks.Trumps, et al, doing the right thing and good work of Patriots, the constitution will die!

Thanks for the rant. I guess ranting saves you the problem of looking at facts. The journalists Musk suspended didn't commit doxxing. Not even by the standards of your new definition of the term. They're just reporters whose reporting he has apparently taken offense at.

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The beginning of the end?

Tesla’s Third Largest Shareholder Calls For the Ouster of Elon Musk as CEO

KoGuan Leo, an Indonesian billionaire and the third-largest individual shareholder of Tesla, is calling for the electric carmaker’s CEO, Elon Musk, to step down as much of his attention is focused on Twitter lately.

“Elon abandoned Tesla and Tesla has no working CEO,” Leo tweeted on Dec. 14. “Tesla needs and deserves to have working full-time CEO.”

https://observer.com/2022/12/koguan-leo-tesla-shareholder-oust-elon-musk/

 

[Bkk Brian]

22 minutes ago, riclag said:

What is a Qelon ? 

 What a hypocrite she is ,Weiss asks “  but if the story of Old Twitter is about the biases and prejudices and power trips of the company’s former overlords, the question is what Musk will now do with the powerful tools they created”?

My guess in response to her is

expose the left’s hypocrisy by using those powerful tools !

 

 

 

 

 

Will Musk be releasing a new set of twitter files to expose how and why he is using these tools?

 

Probably not

Twitter staff reportedly made to sign NDA, leaking info will invite legal action

https://www.wionews.com/world/twitter-staff-reportedly-made-to-sign-nda-leaking-info-will-invite-legal-action-542243

 

He's banning people at whim