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Elon Musk addressed the controversy this week after the social media company suspended the accounts of several journalists who shared information about the billionaires’ locations, saying the media “thinks they’re better than everyone else.” .
Entrepreneur David Sacks ran a poll on Twitter asking “should real-time doxxing be allowed on Twitter,” whether temporary account suspensions are a “reasonable” way to handle violations, and whether it should be required of corporate journalists who play by the same rules as anyone else. user
He later commented on the poll’s results, writing, “It’s interesting that the strongest result is to treat corporate media the same as everyone else. I suspect that’s why they’re acting so hysterically right now.”
“They think they’re better than everyone else,” Musk wrote.
After his comment, the billionaire clarified his earlier statement, saying: “Not all journalists are bad, but many are.”
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The comments come after Twitter’s CEO was suspended on Thursday. Reporters from The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other independent news outlets saw their accounts blacked out.
Musk tweeted late Friday that the company would lift the suspensions following the results of a public survey on his account.
The CEO has previously used Twitter polls to reinstate Donald Trump’s account, reversing a ban that kept the former president off the site.
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The poll showed 58.7% of participants were in favor of a decision to immediately lift account suspensions, with 41.3% of voters saying the suspensions should be lifted in seven days
The drama began after Musk accused a college student who has been tracking the movements of Musk’s private jet, of being responsible for an alleged encounter between his young son and a stalker.
The company has not explained why the accounts were removed. But Musk took to Twitter late Thursday to call out reporters who shared private information about his whereabouts, which he described as “basically assassination coordinates.”
Earlier Thursday, Musk defended the decision to ban several journalists from the platform, tweeting: “Same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’ as everyone else.”