UPDATE: Taylor Lorenz's Twitter account has been restored. It was temporarily booted after she asked the erratic billionaire for comment on a story.
It also followed a recent complaint to Musk by influencer manager Ariadna Jacob, who was the subject of a critical article by Lorenz and who subsequently sued the reporter for defamation.when she worked there. In Lorenz’s story, she linked to a public Zillow listing of an influencer collaboration home.
“Such shameful behavior will not be tolerated going forward,” Musk wrote in reply on Friday, a day before Lorenz was suspended from Twitter.executive editor Sally Buzbee, who noted it was the second suspension of a“The arbitrary suspension of another Post journalist further undermines Elon Musk's claim that he intends to run Twitter as a platform dedicated to free speech,” Buzbee said in a statement.
The suspension of Lorenz with no clear explanation of her alleged infraction 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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