Will Elon Musk’s Crackdown on Journalists Lead to a Media-Twitter Breakup?

On Thursday night, Elon Musk suspended the Twitter accounts of about a half dozen journalists, including several who cover him, and his company, for The Washington Post, CNN, and The New York Times. The sudden purge—what looks like blatant censorship of the press on Twitter, a purchase Musk purportedly made in the name of free speech—has rattled the media, with some questioning if news outlets will reassess their relationship to the platform. “News organizations like the NYT already had mixed feelings about their reporters using Twitter and if you can now be suspended from Twitter for doing fairly straightforward reporting,… Read Full Article