The audio feature that allows people to participate in group chats using the social media platform has been disabled and it is not known if it will ever come back. The move came after the billionaire spoke incoherently about his new rules at a group chat hosted by a reporter at a website.
At least 10 journalists were banned by Musk on Thursday night. The journalists were reporting on the controversy surrounding the ElonJets account, which pulls public information about various aircraft.
At least three people who had been banned were able to join the conversation, including Matt Binder from Mashable, Drew Harwell from the Washington Post, and Jack Sweeney, a college student.
Calacanis, who was brought on at the time of Musk's acquisition but is no longer employed by the company, berated Sweeney and raised wild hypotheticals. Calacanis asked Sweeney how he would feel if Musk or his family members were killed, given that there is no evidence that anyone has harassed Musk.
As recently as a few weeks ago, Musk said he would allow the account to stay active because he believed in free speech. Musk said he would take legal action against the person behind the account.
During his brief appearance, Musk didn't seem to make much sense.
Drawing real-time information about somebody's location is inappropriate and everyone on this call would not like that to be done to them. There won't be a difference between journalists, so-called journalists, and regular people in the future. Musk said that everyone would be treated the same.
Journalists who report on far-right movements like Trumpism are the target of a lot of doxing. Musk believed that his circumstances were exceptional.
They aren't special because you're a journalist You are a citizen, you are a social media user. No special treatment was given. The end of the story is when you get suspended.
dox is a term used to mean the sharing of private information such as a home address or private phone number in a public manner, but it can also mean different things to different people.
I posted a link to the real-time information that is obviously trying to avoid the meaning. Musk struggled to make his point, saying that it was no different from sharing real-time information.
Before Musk took over, the term "ban evasion" meant someone starting a new account after being banned from the platform. Musk has a different definition for that.
Notopoulos wondered if reporting on the controversy surrounding one of the world's richest people was enough to ban someone under the new rules.
Some of the people, like Drew, and Ryan Mac from the New York Times, were reporting on it in the course of journalism. It's a tricky attempt at ban evasion. Notopoulos wanted to know.
The link to the real-time information was shared by Musk.
I don't believe you were posting real-time information. Drew Harwell is a reporter for the Washington Post.
We are not sharing your address. You're suggesting. Harwell made a statement.
Musk said it was true.
"We never......" Harwell didn't post your address.
It is not clear how a flight tracker could be called an address.
Musk has recently claimed that someone was stalking his 2-year-old son, posting a video of someone he claimed had stopped his car, and trying to suggest that this was a direct result of the account. The video was not taken near an airport and was a day later than any flight by Musk's private jet.
According to Harwell, links to ElonJet were posted in the course of reporting, but are now banned on the social networking site.
Musk was caught off-guard by Harwell's comparison of the way in which the Hunter Biden laptop story was blocked in 2020 to the way in which the links to ElonJet were being blocked.
We have to acknowledge, using the same exact link- blocking technique that you have criticized as part of the Hunter Biden-New York Post story in 2020, that the Mastodon accounts are harmful.
Musk said it was the same thing as for him.
The chat was silent as Harwell and the moderators tried to understand what the billionaire was saying.
Anyway... Musk kept going.
What you are doing is not acceptable. Harwell wanted to know.
After leaving the call, Musk said, "You doxx, you get suspended, end of story, that's it."
By the time Notopoulos tried to ask a follow-up question, Musk had left because he was flustered by being asked real questions, rather than being told how great he is by people on social media.
Users can listen to the conversation after it has ended. The chat hosted by Notopoulos was cut short before she ended it. As of this writing, some clips from the conversation are still available on both social media sites.
It looks like the recording of this space is not available. Everyone who watched the show, thanks! It would be great if we could do it again someday.
It is pointless at this point to try and understand the rules. While reinstating several neo-Nazis, Musk decided to keep Alex Jones banned from the platform.
Since he bought the platform, Musk is free to moderate it as he pleases. He needs to stop saying he has a deeper commitment to free speech. People will have a better opinion of you if you own what you are doing.
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