There is a growing rift between the social media site and media organizations that have used it to build their audiences.
The accounts of individual reporters with The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and other news agencies went dark.
Following the results of a public poll on the site, the company will lift the suspension. The poll showed that 58.7% of respondents wanted to unsuspend accounts immediately, while 41.3% wanted the suspension to be lifted in seven days.
The accounts were taken down without explanation. Musk accused journalists of leaking private information about his location, which he described as "basically assassination coordinates." He didn't give any evidence for that claim.
Advertisers stopped advertising on the platform after Musk acquired it, and he now risks alienating media organizations, which are active on the platform.
The accounts were back on time. Business Insider's Linette Lopez was suspended after the other journalists with no explanation.
Lopez published a series of articles about manufacturing problems with the electric car company.
She said she had posted court-related documents to the social networking site. Lopez said that the address is not current due to the fact that he changes his email frequently.
She commented that most ofelonmusk's wounds are self inflicted.
She cited reports that Musk was threatening workers who talked to the media and refused to make rent payments if they spoke about the layoffs. Lopez said his actions were a classic example of Elon going forbroke.
Steve Herman, a national correspondent for Voice of America, told The Associated Press that his suspended account still hadn't been fully restored as of Saturday afternoon because of his refusal to remove three posts that the company flagged for supposedly sharing Musk's location. Although Herman's timeline is now visible to most users, he said he can't see it himself nor can he post anything new until he removes the tweet that the company contends violates its revised terms of service
He said he was in a new level of purgatory. I don't think anything I've said has violated any standard of social media.
The United Nations was rethinking its involvement in the social networking site after the suspensions.
Stephane Dujarric said the move sets a dangerous precedent at a time when journalists all over the world are facing threats.
Musk permanently banned an account that automatically tracked the flights of his private jet, following the suspension of the reporters. The sharing of another person's location without their consent was one of the reasons why the rules for all users were changed.
Several of the reporters suspended Thursday night had been writing about the new policy and Musk's rationale for imposing it, which involved his allegations about a stalking incident he said affected his family.
Mastodon's official account was also banned. It didn't know why it had a jet- tracking account. Some users were stopped from posting links to Mastodon accounts due to the fact that they were flagged as possibly being a type of malicious software.
This is a bald-faced lie.
Musk explained that the doxxing rules apply to journalists as well as to everyone else.
It is a crime to reveal someone's identity, address, phone number or other personal details that violate their privacy.
Sally Buzbee, the executive editor of the Washington Post, said that technology reporter Drew Harwell was kicked out of the paper after reporting accurately on Musk.
CNN said in a statement that the suspension of a number of reporters is concerning but not surprising.
Everyone who usesTwitter should be concerned by the increasing instability and volatility of the site.
A suspended journalist, Matt Binder of the technology news outlet Mashable, said he was banned immediately after sharing a screen shot of a post by another journalist.
The Los Angeles Police Department sent a statement to multiple media outlets about how it was in contact with Musk's representatives about the alleged stalking incident.
He didn't give any location data or links to the jet- tracking account.
I have been critical of Musk but never broke any of the policies.
Musk is making changes to content moderation on the micro-blogging site. He tried to make a case that the platform suppressed right-wing voices under its previous leaders.
He promised to let free speech reign and has reinstated accounts that broke the rules. He said he would suppress hate and negative vibes by denying some accounts.
Bari Weiss, an opinion columnist, called for the reinstatement of the suspended journalists.
She said that the new regime has the same problem as the old one, and that she opposed it in both instances.
The platform would be changed at the fundamental level if it were to be affected by the suspensions.
CBS temporarily stopped using the platform in November due to uncertainty about new management, but media organizations have mostly stayed on the platform.
It's time to go after journalists who really saws at the main tent pole of the social media site. I can't think of a more self-destructive wound than driving journalists off the social networking site.
The suspension may be the biggest red flag yet for advertisers, as some have already cut their spending on the platform due to uncertainty about Musk's direction.
He said that it was an overt demonstration of what advertisers were afraid of the most.
Shortly after Musk signed out of a session hosted by a journalist, the Spaces conference chat went down. Musk took Spaces offline to deal with a bug.
Advertisers are keeping a close eye on the possible loss of users. According to a forecast by Insider Intelligence, there will be a loss of 32 million users over the next two years.
Some alternatives are gaining steam.
On the day Musk took ownership of Twitter, Mastodon had 3.4 million users. Many of the networks in the Mastodon platform were used to solicit donations as disgruntled users strained computing resources. Crowd-funded networks are called "instances." The platform is free of ads.
Kelvin Chan in London, Frank Jordans in Berlin, Frank Bajak in Boston, and Hillel Italie and Edith Lederer contributed to the report.
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