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Musk suspends journalists from Twitter, claims ‘assassination’ danger

Company executives alleged that the more than half a dozen reporters endangered Twitter’s owner by sharing his location. But a review of their tweets shows no evidence of it.

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Updated December 16, 2022 at 12:05 a.m. EST|Published December 15, 2022 at 8:27 p.m. EST
On Dec. 15, Twitter suspended the accounts of several prominent journalists, including Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell. (Video: Reuters)
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Twitter suspended the accounts of more than half a dozen journalists from CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post and other outlets Thursday evening, as company owner Elon Musk accused the reporters of posting “basically assassination coordinates” for him and his family.

The Post has seen no evidence that any of the reporters did so.