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Twitter banned several prominent journalists from high-ranking news organizations' accounts without explanation on Thursday evening.
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This is a sign of Elon Musk's attempt to exert his unilateral authority on the platform,
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The accounts belong to CNN's Donie O'Sullivan and Ryan Mac of The New York Times, Drew Harwell from The Washington Post, and others.
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All journalists who had genuinely covered Musk over the past weeks were abruptly and permanently suspended.
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Aaron Rupar, a progressive independent journalist, was also expelled.
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Twitter and Musk did not respond to our request for comment on Thursday evening.
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The platform didn't explain why journalists were exiled.
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He claimed that the sanctioned accounts violated his "doxxing" policies and shared what he called "assassination coordinates."
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Many people pointed out that the journalists hadn't distributed this information.
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