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Areeba Shah

UNCOVERED: Elon loves far right bans journalists - The Untold Story

It has been a chaotic week on Twitter, even by the standards of Elon Musk's brief tenure as the site's owner and CEO. Shortly after abruptly suspending the Twitter accounts of several prominent reporters for the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN and other outlets, Musk reinstated several accounts associated with far-right commentary which had been banned for spreading misinformation about the 2020 election or the COVID pandemic.

Musk claimed the journalists in question had "doxxed" him by publishing articles about Musk's suspension of a Twitter account that had shared public information about the movements of his private jet. In fact, their articles did not share any information about Musk's real-time location or that of any of his family members. At most, they wrote about sites where that information was hypothetically available.

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