Users were unable to share Mastodon links in their tweets and they were labeled as "potentially harmful" and containing "malware". The Twitter account of Mastodon – a rival social-media platform – was also suspended on December 15 after linking to on a Mastodon server. Several of the suspended journalists said they had not violated the rule, and while some had included links to in their articles or reported about the account, it was already suspended at the time of media reports. The account and other similar accounts were suspended from Twitter on December 14, 2022, but continued operating on Facebook, Mastodon, and other social media platforms.
The bans were allegedly in response to the ElonJet account, which tracks Musk's private jet. The policy change prohibited accounts from sharing real-time flight information of private jets. They later stated it was due to violations of a new rule, created one day before the bans took place. Twitter officials initially offered no explanation for their decision. Some of the accounts were restored earlier. Posters on behalf of the owners of the accounts were quick to claim that the suspensions were permanent before Musk clarified account access would be restricted for seven days. Musk said the accounts had violated a policy on doxxing.
The suspensions came after an incident that occurred on December 14, when a stalker followed Elon’s 2-year-old son while he was traveling in a car by a stalker who thought Elon was in the car. Herman, and Donie O'Sullivan, and journalists from The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and The Intercept. They included reporters Keith Olbermann, Steven L. On December 15, 2022, Twitter suspended the accounts of ten journalists who have covered the company and its owner, Elon Musk.
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