Several prominent journalists have been suspended without explanation.
The journalists affected at the time of writing include the New York Times' Ryan Mac, CNN's Donie O' Sullivan, the Washington Post's Drew Harwell, as well as the independent journalist TonyWebster.
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Some of those journalists, including Harwell, had shared reporting about the sudden suspension of rival social platform Mastodon's account, while others, including Binder, had shared reporting on the suspended accounts of other journalists.
The account pages now only show a message saying that accounts will be suspended.
In a statement provided for this story, Binder said that he was banned immediately after sharing a screen shot from CNN's Donnie O' Sullivan. There was a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department regarding the incident that led to the suspension of Jack Sweeney and the company he created. I did not give out any location data. I didn't share any links to locations.
The account that used public data to track the movements of Musk's private jet was banned and then banned again this week. The personal account of Sweeney, a college freshman at the University of Central Florida, was suspended along with his other bot accounts. Musk tried to bribe Sweeney to take down the robot.
A car carrying Musk's young son was attacked by a crazy stalker, as well as a new policy limiting the sharing of live location information on the platform. Musk linked the publicly available information shared by Sweeney's bot account to the incident and stated that legal action against Sweeney had been initiated.
At the time of writing, other journalists had not had their accounts banned, despite sharing the LAPD statement about the incident.
The journalist's bans have been clarified by Mashable.
This story has been updated since it was first published to add to the list of suspended journalists.
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