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Snowflake Elon Musk suspends journalists' Twitter Accounts in an Authoritarian Purge [1]

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Date: 2022-12-15

First the Snowflake Musk came for Elon Musk's jet.

Now Elon Musk had had one of the most popular people on Twitter, Aaron Rupar, was suspended.

Musk is also suspended journalists who write about, who else but Elon Musk! CNN’s Donie

O'Sullivan, the WaPo’s Drew Harwell, and Keith Olbermann (among others) were all suspended to protect Elon Musk’s delicate fee fee

x Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell.



Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened. — Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 16, 2022

x Mashable's @mattbinder has been suspended from Twitter. He's been on the Elon Musk beat. — Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 16, 2022

x This was The Washington Post's @drewharwell's post before he was suspended from Twitter, outlining how Twitter suspended the account of its competitor Mastodon earlier today. pic.twitter.com/Vc8QuwHXZE — Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 16, 2022

x Here's @keitholbermann's last tweet before he was suspended from Twitter. pic.twitter.com/znjxnGPW03 — Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 16, 2022

x Steve Herman, @W7VOA, the Chief National Correspondent for the U.S. government-funded Voice of America, also suspended from Twitter. You can find him on Mastodon here:https://t.co/XVAxJChdZC — Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 16, 2022

x Steve Herman, @W7VOA, the Chief National Correspondent for the U.S. government-funded Voice of America, also suspended from Twitter. You can find him on Mastodon here:https://t.co/XVAxJChdZC — Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 16, 2022

So much for ‘Free Speech’. Smarmy snowflake Elon Musk intends to run Twitter like a dictator runs an authoritarian government. Prominent critics will be punished.

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