Elon Musk As Twitter Suspends Journalists

Twitter Inc on Thursday suspended the accounts of several journalists, including ones from the New York Times

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Billionaire Elon Musk, and changes at the platform since he bought it.

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"Same doxxing rules apply to "journalists" as to everyone else,"

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Reference to Twitter rules banning sharing of personal information, called doxxing.

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