Elon Musk Will Create a Suspension Feature for Doxing Accounts

A number of leading journalist twitter accounts were suspended by elon Musk (photo: Pixabay)

JAKARTA - Still struggling with accounts that doxed him and his family, Elon Musk suspended the @Elonjet account which had shared the location of the private jet belonging to the new CEO of Twitter.

On Thursday, December 15 evening there were reports that a number of Twitter accounts belonging to prominent journalists were suspended by Twitter. According to a report on TechCrunch, Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell has been suspended for sharing screenshots and his observations of the Mastodon suspension.

Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022

Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, Ryan Mac of The New York Times, Donie O'Sullivan of CNN, Matt Binder of Mashable, and journalist Aaron Rupar were also suspended by Musk on Thursday night.

In a recent tweet, replying to another user's tweet, he said that anyone doing the doxing would be suspended, including a journalist. "The same doxxing rules apply to "journalists" as they do to anyone else," he said.

In a separate tweet, Musk said "Criticizing me all day is okay, but ruining my real-time location and putting my family in danger, no," Musk said on Twitter today. Musk also added that accounts involved in doxing would be suspended for seven days.

When a Twitter user with the handle @alx commented on the timeframe for suspending doxed accounts to make them more transparent, Musk said he was adding the feature to Twitter.

"Yes, we will add that feature. The current system is not clear. Time delays to report locations that do not put people at high risk of being killed are not a problem," he explained.

Yeah, we will add that feature. Current system isn’t clear.

A time delay on reporting location that doesn’t put people at serious risk of being killed is fine.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022