🚨🚨@Twitter's decision to suspend the accounts of more than a dozen journalists from CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other outlets poses a threat to press freedom and reflects another deeply troubling example of the direction @Twitter is headed

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1. ABOUT LAST NIGHT

I participated in a Twitter space hosted by Katie Notopoulos w/a lot of journalists

When I joined @jason, one of Musk's apparatchiks, was badgering Drew Harwell, a suspended reporter, and Jack Sweeney, the guy behind the accounts that tracked jets

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Coming to the realization that Wikipedia & the Wikimedia Foundation Foundation are the highest point of the Internet.

No other service has surpassed that grassroots drive to expand human knowledge. No other service has been so resilient for so long without descending into a death spiral.

A quirky yet valuable Twitter account that tracked helicopter flights over D.C. has fallen victim to a new fight led by Elon Musk over the sharing of personal information and locations. Helicopters of DC on Telegram was suspended this morning: dcist.com/story/22/12/16…

What the world's richest man did yesterday is reminiscent of how Tunisian dictator Ben Ali reacted when his presidential plane was tracked, revealing corruption—remember what happened to him?

In 24 hours, Elon Musk banned accounts he said he never would, made up new rules to justify it, threatened legal action against a 20-year-old, pontificated on how doxing is banned on the platform, and then immediately doxed a man.
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when the poll yields the desired result vs. when it doesn’t

this is so weak. musk is a public figure whose businesses, govt connections etc are very much in the public interest. public information like #elonjet has to be seen in that light. plus: ANYONE CAN TRACK HIM WITHOUT TWITTER! to the extent there's danger, it's not from tweets.

People really need to understand how mainstream it has become in some tech VC circles to argue that journalism itself is dangerous as an idea and should be abolished, and that it will be up to the tech world to carry this out.

Big day for the “free speech” crowd on here suddenly embracing the idea that online speech can lead stochastically to real-world violence, justifying the imposition of centralized content moderation.

On a lot of convos now about the future of Twitter for national journos, but largely missing is the impact on local: commuting problems, weather disasters, municipal meetings, road closures, schools, etc.

Hard to see what replaces this for a lot of places

What message does this send to *other* reporters--the ones who haven't (yet) been purged? Is it tenable for reporters to stay here now that Musk has made clear that they're here at his pleasure, and that he'll eject them if they cross his arbitrary lines?

.Elon Musk, you can dish but you can't take it. What a weak snowflake you are. Also, such a stunning hypocrite. I want to hear from Taibbi, Bari Weiss and Greenwald about Twitter suspending the accounts of critical journalists. Free speech warriors and all...

Practicing to be an autocrat, Elon Musk expels his media critics from Twitter.
So much for free expression.
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News organizations like the NYT already had mixed feelings about their reporters using Twitter and if you can now be suspended from Twitter for doing fairly straightforward reporting, you have to wonder if that's the tipping point.

Bellingcat Discord member Sepulco geolocated the video Elon Musk posted overnight, claiming to show a stalker, which he used to justify the banning of accounts that tracked flights. It's at 34.116175,-118.160635, not close to any airports.
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New report on #SLAPPs from CIMA. Author Peter Noorlander highlights innovative tactics journalists, lawyers, and media support orgs are using to defang these frivolous lawsuits that endanger #pressfreedom and #mediadev .