The Twitter Files: the Night they Drove Old Elon Down

Elon Musk’s legendary commitment to ABSOLUTE FREE SPEECH seems to be wavering just a touch:

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.

Neither Musk nor Twitter responded to a request for comment Thursday evening. The platform did not explain precisely why the journalists were exiled from the platform.

I’m sure Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi will be all over this. Maybe the University of Austin’s Journalism School can do a case study.