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Twitter suspends journalists including the New York Times' Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’”  —  Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
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Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Twitter disables Spaces, after Elon Musk abruptly left a Spaces chat with journalists suspended from the site; Musk says the company is “fixing a legacy bug”  —  Twitter has apparently pulled its Spaces group audio feature, at least temporarily, after Elon Musk joined …
Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
Elon Musk briefly joined a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News tech reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after journalists asked him questions  —  The embattled Twitter CEO briefly appeared in the Twitter Space hosted by BuzzFeed News tech reporter Katie Notopoulos.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: NBC News suspended Ben Collins from covering Elon Musk on NBC and MSNBC for criticism of Musk earlier in December deemed not editorially appropriate  —  News organizations are scrambling to respond to Elon Musk's suspension from Twitter of prominent journalists whose coverage he objected to.
Gabe Hoffman / @gabehoff:
Twitter has suspended Business Insider reporter Linette Lopez, who covers Tesla and who has documented times when Elon Musk has “tracked and doxxed” his critics  —  Elon Musk just suspended Business Insider reporter Linette Lopez for documenting the times Elon had his enemies tracked and doxxed She did not post anything related to Elon's jet She has done amazing investigative reporting on Tesla https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy:
Puck co-founder Jon Kelly says the news outlet is pausing advertising on Twitter, after Elon Musk banned several high-profile journalists from the site  —  New: @PuckNews has paused advertising on Twitter, co-founder @JonKelly2 tells me, marking the first news organization (that I'm aware of) which has suspended advertising on the platform since Musk banned several high-profile journalists from the site.
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Twitter suspends Mastodon's account and bans Mastodon links, calling them “harmful” and “malware”, after Mastodon tweeted a jet tracking account on its service  —  A day after Twitter crafted a new policy to explain its decision to ban an account that tracks Elon Musk's private jet, the fallout continues.
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin says the company manually reviewed “any and all accounts” that violated its new privacy policy by linking to ElonJet
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Ryan Mac / New York Times:
Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including suspending accounts “dedicated to sharing someone else's live location”
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
A look at Backstage, Spotify's open-source developer platform used at Netflix, LinkedIn, Epic, Roku, Box, and 200+ others, which the company seeks to monetize  —  Backstage is used by developers at Netflix, American Airlines and hundreds of other companies  —  With nearly a third …
Reuters:
A Turkish court orders the arrest of a journalist for allegedly spreading “disinformation”, the first pre-trial detention under a new law on “false” information  —  A court ordered the arrest of a journalist in southeast Turkey for allegedly spreading “disinformation” …
 
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