Elon Musk has suspended several journalists from Twitter. Paul Farhi writes:
Many of the journalists suspended Thursday, including Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, had been covering that rule change, as well as Musk’s claims that he and his family had been endangered by location sharing.
Musk suggested on Twitter, without evidence, that the journalists had revealed private information about his family, known as doxing. “Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not,” he tweeted late Thursday.
At least eight other journalists were suspended the same evening, including New York Times technology reporter Ryan Mac.
CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan was suspended shortly after posting a tweet about Musk’s claim that a “crazy stalker” had chased his young son in Los Angeles, according to screenshots.
Matt Binder, a Mashable reporter, was tweeting about O’Sullivan’s suspension when his account also went dark.
Independent journalist Tony Webster’s account was also suspended as of Thursday evening. So were the accounts of former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann; Intercept reporter Micah Lee; Voice of America’s chief national correspondent Steve Herman; and Aaron Rupar, a Substack writer with nearly 800,000 followers on Twitter.
This has happened at the same time Donald Trump has launched his latest business venture: selling Pokemon cards of himself clad as a superhero who vanquishes his enemies.
We've known for a long time that money is a catalyst for corruption. It appears that it's also a catalyst for mental illness.
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6 comments:
I think Musk is bored. He's looking for a new adventure. In the mean time he, like Trump, does stupid stuff just to get attention.
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I think so too.
When these folks get bored, Toby, we're all in deep trouble.
I note that Musk backed down on his suspensions, Toby.
Not surprising Musk "banned" some journalists from twitter. Its what megalmanicas do. In an out of control world, he created for himself, he now wants order or the least no criticisms. A man who continues to have as many children as he has, is riduclous. Perhaps he is trying to populate the world with clones of himself.
Is Musk mentally ill? sort of. He is overwhelmed by all the work he is now faced with, several companies, several mothers of his children, a lot of children, having bought Twitter, fired thousands and now doesn't know what to do. Expect him to produce more babies. He does the first thing which pops into his mind, which isn't always the best thing.
He was the richest person in the world. Perhaps he wanted to be the most powerful in the world and thought purchasing twitter would accomplish that in some way. All he has is twitter and it isn't an army or a stock of nuclear bombs. Look forward to more "hissy" fits.
The differance between being crazy and eccentric is the amount of money in your bank account.
It appears some people believe that being rich allows you to be crazy. e.a.f.
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