Tag: doxxing

Twitter Bans ‘Free Promotion’ of Other Social Media Platforms, Then Loosens New Rule

Twitter announced on Dec. 18 that it will no longer allow for “free promotion” of certain social media platforms on the site, including Facebook and Truth Social, before appearing to make a U-turn on the decision. The announcement came shortly after Twitter suspended the accounts of several corporate news reporters for allegedly violating the company’s policy against “doxxing.”…


Elon Musk Reinstates Journalists’ Accounts Suspended for Doxxing Policy Violations

Elon Musk has reinstated journalists’ accounts that were earlier suspended for allegedly doxxing his location in real-time, with the temporary suspensions earning the Wikipedia monicker “Thursday Night Massacre” and fueling questions over press freedom on the platform. After Twitter updated its policy prohibiting sharing people’s location in real-time—known as doxxing—due to personal safety risks, nine…


Musk Reinstates Journalists’ Twitter Accounts Suspended for Doxxing Violations

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has reinstated journalists’ accounts that were earlier suspended for allegedly doxxing his location in real-time, with the temporary suspensions earning the Wikipedia moniker “Thursday Night Massacre” and fueling questions over press freedom on the platform. After the platform updated its policy prohibiting sharing people’s location in real-time—known as doxxing—due to personal…


Elon Musk Polls Twitter Users on Restoring Accounts of Journalists Banned for Doxxing Policy Violations

Elon Musk has clarified Twitter’s recently revised doxxing policy after running a poll that asked users to weigh in on when to reinstate the suspended accounts of journalists who allegedly violated the policy by sharing Musk’s real-time location and “endangering” his family. Twitter on Thursday announced changes to its Private Information policy—commonly referred to as its…


Twitter Suspends Accounts of Journalists From CNN, New York Times Under New Doxxing Policy

Elon Musk’s Twitter suspended the accounts of multiple journalists, including ones from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN, on Thursday after they allegedly violated the platform’s terms of service. The accounts that were suspended belonged to CNN’s politics and tech correspondent Donie O’Sullivan, The New York Times’ technology reporter Ryan Mac, The…


The Libs of TikTok Story Is a Damning Story, All Right—Damning to Journalism

Commentary It happened just like that. On April 19, The Washington Post decided to “doxx”—to reveal the identity of—the hitherto anonymous female manager of Libs of TikTok, the hugely popular but hated-by-liberals Twitter account that re-posts with scathing commentary the selfie videos that purple-haired, bizarrely pierced schoolteachers post of themselves standing in their classrooms and…