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Elon Musk’s Twitter bans CNN, NYT, WaPo journalists without explanation
CNN ^ | December 16, 2022 | Oliver Darcy

Posted on 12/16/2022 3:11:24 AM PST by jroehl

New York CNN — Twitter on Thursday evening banned the accounts of several high-profile journalists from top news organizations without explanation, apparently marking a significant attempt by new owner Elon Musk to wield his unilateral authority over the platform.

The accounts belonging to CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell and other journalists who have covered Musk aggressively in recent weeks were all abruptly permanently suspended. The account of progressive independent journalist Aaron Rupar was also banned.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bias; elonmusk; mediabias; musk; truthsocial; twitter
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He should ban all journalists.
1 posted on 12/16/2022 3:11:24 AM PST by jroehl
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To: jroehl

Good


2 posted on 12/16/2022 3:12:44 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta ( )
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To: jroehl

So the left is now getting a taste of what the right has been putting up with for years and now they’re gonna cry about it?

Cry me a river. It’s about time..


3 posted on 12/16/2022 3:13:11 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (q11)
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To: jroehl

Is @elonmusk becoming the Game Master from Hunger Games?


4 posted on 12/16/2022 3:15:50 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: jroehl

he suspended them cuz they were linking to the elonjet guy


5 posted on 12/16/2022 3:17:37 AM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: jroehl

Without explanation? It was clearly explained. Of course they lie about it.


6 posted on 12/16/2022 3:18:25 AM PST by The Free Engineer
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-elon-musk-spar-twitter-ceo-suspends-cnn-nyt-wapo-journos-posting-assassination-coordinates


7 posted on 12/16/2022 3:19:12 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: jroehl

The blatant lies are amusing. Musk came out and explicitly said is was for violating the doxxing policy.


8 posted on 12/16/2022 3:19:20 AM PST by ALPAPilot
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

“Cry me a river. It’s about time.”
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Agree. I think it’s funny. Give them a taste of their own medicine I say, lol 😂!


9 posted on 12/16/2022 3:24:08 AM PST by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp, )
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To: jroehl

AWESOME!!!!


10 posted on 12/16/2022 3:24:45 AM PST by patriot torch
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To: The Free Engineer
Without explanation? It was clearly explained. Of course they lie about it.

CNN's not-so-secret policy is "Never tell the truth if a lie will serve."

11 posted on 12/16/2022 3:24:54 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (CNN)
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To: jroehl

The foo’s on the other shoot!


12 posted on 12/16/2022 3:25:05 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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CNN writes a story about CNN being banned from Twitter! Sweet!! propagandists should be dealt with much more harshly than just being banned from Twitter. Oughta be behind bars


13 posted on 12/16/2022 3:25:21 AM PST by albie
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It’s private company.

Let them build their own platform.

Elon was being doxxed and cyberstalked.

None of the fake news media has reported this:

Scott Wainner
@scottwww

Elon uses the FAA PIA privacy program for a private plane ID. When using a PIA address, the owner is anon and private, not public. Sweeney’s workaround is (likely) to spot a (rare) ICAO plane resembling Musk’s & noting the private code.
@elonmusk
@FAANews

Jack Sweeney
@JxckSweeney Yeah so the PIA ICAO can be changed monthly if chosen to do so but even then, it’s relatively easy to identify I’m confident I can write software to
identify it actually.


14 posted on 12/16/2022 3:26:04 AM PST by TigerClaws
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Elon Musk @elonmusk · 9h

Replying to @IFNY2775 and @micsolana

Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not

15 posted on 12/16/2022 3:26:05 AM PST by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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Typical CNN lie. Musk explained why. They were giving real time location information about Musk’s kid - in direct violation of Twitter’s rules.

Leftists are of course outraged to learn the rules now apply to them too - for the first time in years and years.


16 posted on 12/16/2022 3:27:40 AM PST by FLT-bird
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These people were stalking Elon Musk and his family wherever they traveled. Sick people. Twitter is just a forum for people to post their thoughts. It is not meant for stalking people or threatening people. People's personal opinions should not become life or death issues. Is it any surprise that one of the perps was Keith Olbermann?

17 posted on 12/16/2022 3:30:54 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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CNN is the only group on Earth paying attention to the news who doesn’t know why they were banned?

You were banned CNN for criminal behavior and now you’re even lying about it.


18 posted on 12/16/2022 3:31:04 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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They already have a place to express their views... It’s called the ‘newspaper’ that they work for.

Twitter isn’t a ‘newspaper’.


19 posted on 12/16/2022 3:43:18 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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Musk should ban every user who has claimed to be a journalist, in the past, for a year. 90% of journalists are democrats. I think this would only be fair.


20 posted on 12/16/2022 3:48:06 AM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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