Musk has not commented on Lorenz’s suspension and instead spent Saturday evening chiding “Faucists”—a ding at former COVID czar Anthony Fauci—and implying Jeff Bezos deliberately copied his ideas.
It also followed a recent complaint to Musk by influencer manager Aridana Jacob, who was the subject of a critical article by Lorenz and who subsequently sued the reporter for defamation. Jacob claimed that Lorenz doxxed her in the article,“Such shameful behavior will not be tolerated going forward,” Musk wrote in reply on Friday, a day before Lorenz was suspended from Twitter.
It was not immediately clear which Twitter rule Lorenz is accused of violating, which has been a theme of previous journalists bans. For instance, Twitter banned some reporters who merely linked to @elonjet’s new account on social media rival Mastodon—which was also briefly banned on Twitter. “Twitter has served as an essential real time news source and played a crucial role in the journalism world,” Lorenz wrote, “but Musk’s arbitrary suspensions of journalists who report on him should worry anyone who values journalism and free expression.”
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