Donie O’Sullivan, Drew Harwell, and other journalists remain locked out of their Twitter accounts despite suspensions lifted, many until they delete tweets (Micah Lee/The Intercept)

Micah Lee / The Intercept:
Donie O’Sullivan, Drew Harwell, and other journalists remain locked out of their Twitter accounts despite suspensions lifted, many until they delete tweets  —  I’ve been writing critically about billionaire Elon Musk since he took over Twitter — particularly about his “free speech” hypocrisy and his censorship of left-wing accounts.

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[Thread] Twitter suspends accounts of journalists who cover Elon Musk, including WaPo’s Drew Harwell, NYT’s Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, and Aaron Rupar (Ben Collins/@oneunderscore__)

Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__:
[Thread] Twitter suspends accounts of journalists who cover Elon Musk, including WaPo’s Drew Harwell, NYT’s Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, and Aaron Rupar  —  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.

[Thread] Twitter suspends accounts of journalists who cover Elon Musk, including WaPo’s Drew Harwell, NYT’s Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, and Aaron Rupar (Ben Collins/@oneunderscore__)

Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__:
[Thread] Twitter suspends accounts of journalists who cover Elon Musk, including WaPo’s Drew Harwell, NYT’s Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, and Aaron Rupar  —  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.

Meta-commissioned report from BSR details censorship and allegations of “unintentional bias” against Palestinians during violence by Israeli forces in May 2021 (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)

Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Meta-commissioned report from BSR details censorship and allegations of “unintentional bias” against Palestinians during violence by Israeli forces in May 2021  —  Facebook and Instagram’s speech policies harmed fundamental human rights of Palestinian users during a conflagration …

Some prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had Twitter accounts suspended in the past week, after far-right trolls appealed to Musk to ban them (The Intercept)

The Intercept:
Some prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had Twitter accounts suspended in the past week, after far-right trolls appealed to Musk to ban them  —  Elon Musk claims to be “fighting for free speech in America” but the social network’s new owner appears to be overseeing a purge of left-wing activists from the platform.

Whenever US politicians talk about changing Section 230 or regulating Big Tech and websites, they are almost always talking about imperiling the First Amendment (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Whenever US politicians talk about changing Section 230 or regulating Big Tech and websites, they are almost always talking about imperiling the First Amendment  —  The First Amendment is one of America’s most distinctive pieces of law.  But as the midterm — and, quickly, the presidential …

Elon Musk firing Vijaya Gadde is a loss for free speech as she was the most responsible for Twitter’s unmatched record defending “actual” free speech globally (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Elon Musk firing Vijaya Gadde is a loss for free speech as she was the most responsible for Twitter’s unmatched record defending “actual” free speech globally  —  Last night, Elon Musk closed his on-again, off-again, on-again deal to buy Twitter, and his very first order of business was to fire a bunch of top executives.