People who engage in harassment, stalking, and doxxing are rallying around Elon Musk in hopes of suppressing their political enemies

Anarchist accounts

Another thread that includes accounts banned before tonight

Musk allies are mischaracterizing some of the banned accounts to create a false path to justification when people question this obvious crackdown on press freedom

Elon jumps in with a statement that is complete at odds with reality. The banned accounts weren’t doing this. It’s completely untrue

In addition to banning Mastodon’s account, Twitter is now preventing linking out to its competitor

Reports are trickling in that links to more platforms are starting to get blocked under the guise of being “unsafe”

The implications of Twitter blocking links to other platforms are huge

Now Elon is saying some of the suspensions are for 7 days. Other accounts, including several journalists, received notifications that they were permanently suspended. Also important: the 7 day suspension isn’t for doxxing. Keith didn’t dox anyone

I interrupt this thread to give you a heads up of where else you can find me. I’m not on mastodon yet

The biggest newsrooms who had journalists get banned tonight have issued statements