The suspensions affected several journalists and commentators, including Texas Observer journalist Steven Monacelli, Ken Klippensten of The Intercept, podcaster Rob Rousseau, and Alan MacLeod of MintPress News. The landing page for their accounts says it’s been suspended, but does not give any explanation as to why. A message on the profiles simply states “X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.”

The ban didn’t just hit journalists either. Several prominent-left leaning accounts were also purged from the website, including the account for the TrueAnon podcast and @zei_squirrel, a cartoon squirrel that tweets media criticism of figures like Glenn Greenwald.

This isn't the first time the site has banned reporters. In April, it permanently suspended Wired reporter Dell Cameron after he spoke with a hacker who accessed conservative pundit Matt Walsh’s emails. In December of 2022, it suspended the accounts of ten journalists who’d been critical of site owner Elon Musk.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-x-twitter-journalists-banning-spree-1851151593

https://twitter.com/liz_franczak/status/1744712132015370527

Edit: they're back now

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[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 107 points 10 months ago (4 children)

lol, didn't TrueAnon just get called far-right by NYT or WaPo or something? Why is it that "both sides" hate the podcast about the elite pedophilia cabal thinking-about-it

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

melon-musk : "MEIN GOTT! ZE UNTERSMENCH FIGURED OUT IT'S NOT THE JEWS!"

capitalist-woke : "Well, just ban them lol and frame it as owning the libs."

[–] motherofmonsters@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago

because brace fought for a foreign army. Got to be that

[–] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

The Indépendant

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

that shit is legit hilariously sad. the liberal media has quite literally fully surrendered the entire realm of “questioning the official narrative,” something the MEDIA should be doing, to “the right wing.” Everything from Epstein’s “suicide” to JFK being killed by the CIA to vaccine doubts the origins of COVID-19. It does’t matter anymore if it’s actually way off in coocoo far right conspiracy land or has tons of evidence behind it. if the state dept doesn’t endorse it then it’s just right wing bullshit and you should ignore it

what a fucking country

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

You're being just like Trump if you criticize an extremely dubious news narrative.