new york twitter has abruptly suspended the accounts of several highprofile journalists who cover the social media platform and elon musk who acquired the company in octoberthe accounts of ryan mac of the new york times donie osullivan of cnn drew harwell of the washington post matt binder of mashable micah lee of the intercept steve herman of voice of america and independent journalists aaron rupar keith olbermann as well as tony webster had all been suspended as of thursday evening cnn reportedthe journalists however found a backdoor way onto the platform through the websites audio function and hours later of suspension faced off with musk in a twitter space audio discussion before an audience of more than 30000 listenersyou doxx you get suspended end of story thats it musk said to one of the suspended journalists explaining his latest policy to the group before he left minutes after having joined the discussionmusk was referring to twitters latest rule change about accounts that track private jets including one owned by musk himself which was put in place on wednesdaythe twitter account for mastodon a platform billed as a twitter alternative was also suspended early on thursday eveningtwitter accounts operated by nbc news journalists were unable to tweet any links to mastodon pages mastodon was however trending on twitteraccording to nbc news musk said the suspensions stemmed from the platforms new rules banning private jet trackers responding to a tweet from mike solana a vice president of the venture capital firm founders fund who noted that the suspended accounts had posted links to jet trackers on other websitescriticising me all day long is totally fine but doxxing my realtime location and endangering my family is not he said in another tweetdoxxing refers to the practice of sharing someones home address or other personal information onlinemusk tweeted that the accounts banned on thursday posted my exact realtime location basically assassination coordinates in obvious direct violation of twitter terms of servicemusk later added that the suspensions would last seven daysin early november shortly after having taken control of twitter musk tweeted that he would not ban the account that tracked his jetrupar wrote on substack that his account was permanently suspended but that he had no other informationi havent heard anything from twitter at all he wrote saying that he had tweeted a link on wednesday to a facebook page that tracked musks jetbinder a tech reporter at mashable said he was suspended after he tweeted a screenshot from another suspended reporter cnns osullivan of a los angeles police department statementive been on it since 2008 i never got so much as a slap on the wrist because i always follow the rules binder said its not hard to do when you know what the rules arebinder said his account notified him that he is permanently suspendedthis is the very stuff that hes criticised the previous twitter of doing binder said of muskbinder found a loophole in twitters suspension joining an audio discussion