The owner of Twitter, Elon Muskwould have disabled the function of ‘Twitter Spaces’, which allowed users to have audio conversations in real time, after a group of journalists leaked information about the location of his private jet.
On December 9, Musk had stated that the function ‘TwitterSpace’ would be adjusting to some failures that it had been presenting and that “should be working the next day.”
(See: Elon Musk dissolved Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council).
However, the day after the announcement, Musk decided to block the accounts of some journalists from the media CNN, The Washington Post and The New York Times, for seven days for leaking unverified information about the location of his jet.
Given that their Tweets were no longer available, some of the suspended journalists came out to give their opinion through the ‘Twitter Space’ social network application, regarding the “abrupt” determination made by Elon.
(See: Twitter will auction off items to raise funds.)
In the middle of the transmission, the owner of Twitter also joined, after it reached the 40,000 network listenersin which he reported that “anyone who reveals private location information of another person will be suspended”.
For their part, the journalists assured that they had not published any data on Musk’s flight in real time, a response that was not enough for the billionaire, who dropped the dispute.
(See: Elon Musk’s AI Reveals Plan for World Domination).
Given this fact, regulators and European Union politicians They also entered the discussion.
(See: ‘He treats them like garbage’: criticism of Musk for dismissal from his team).
“The news about the arbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter is worrying,” European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said in a tweet. “There are red lines. And sanctions, soon”.
Authorities warned Elon about new digital content and press freedom regulations, which They will be in force in the next year.
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