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Drew Harwell @drewharwell@mastodon.social

· 46mo ago

Replying to

For anyone wondering, I'm still unable to access Twitter until I delete this tweet, which is factual journalism that doesn't even break the location rule Twitter enacted a few days ago. The account isn't marked as suspended anymore, but I can't use it or see tweets from people I follow. Using Mastodon exclusively for now and actually really enjoying it.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell@mastodon.social

· 46mo ago

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Been five days since Twitter suspended a bunch of journalists, including me, for tweeting out factual reporting. And we're still suspended. CNN's @donieosullivan@mastodon.ie, NYT's Ryan Mac and I can't access Twitter until we delete specific tweets that they said included "private information" but were actually just reporting. Journalists Linette Lopez and Susan Li, who also covered Musk, are still suspended. No explanation given.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell@mastodon.social

· 46mo ago

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CNN:

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell@mastodon.social

· 46mo ago

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NYT's statement: "Tonight’s suspension of the Twitter accounts of a number of prominent journalists, including The New York Times’s Ryan Mac, is questionable and unfortunate. Neither The Times nor Ryan have received any explanation about why this occurred. We hope that all of the journalists’ accounts are reinstated and that Twitter provides a satisfying explanation for this action."

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell@mastodon.social

· 42mo ago

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Twitter did the same thing with Mastodon in December, then suspended journalists like me who pointed that out https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512113/twitter-blocking-mastodon-links-elon-musk-elonjet

The Verge

Twitter is blocking links to Mastodon

You might have trouble tweeting about Mastodon.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell@mastodon.social

· 44mo ago

"It remains confounding to me that a person who tried to overthrow the government, and used Facebook to help him do it, ultimately got off with a two-year time out. Especially when much more benign users, notably sex educators, are routinely given permanent suspensions. At the same time, Trump hasn’t been held accountable by the US government, either. ... We find ourselves calling on Facebook to do what prosecutors so far have not"

@caseynewton@mastodon.social: https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-restores-trump

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell@mastodon.social

· 46mo ago

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The link in this tweet - https://t.co/X8n9xSRld9 - just referred to itself. The tweet included two screenshots (below) but no direct link to @elonjet@mastodon.social or the flight-tracking data at ADS-B Exchange. The tweet does not break the rules, unless there is a new rule saying you can't acknowledge that flight-tracking data exists on the internet.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell@mastodon.social

· 30mo ago

New from me on Truth Social:

* Trump's site made $4M in revenue last year, little more than average McDonald's (but less than Chick-fil-A)
* Executives got $600,000 "retention bonuses" even though company lost $58 million last year
* Trump Media called this a "ridiculous hit piece" even though it's all their own numbers
* Stock just opened down 9%

Gift link: https://wapo.st/3JcnUEG

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell@mastodon.social

· 30mo ago

New: I talked to Trump Media investors about their shares' value getting cut in half. A tree remover in Oklahoma who bet basically his whole nest egg told me, “This isn’t just another stock … I feel like it was God Almighty that put it in my lap" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/14/truth-social-investors-faith-trump/

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell@mastodon.social

· 45mo ago

This will only be a problem if someone gets a three-second recording of your voice

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/microsofts-new-ai-can-simulate-anyones-voice-with-3-seconds-of-audio/

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell@mastodon.social

· 38mo ago

Rich and powerful people are using defamation lawsuits to silence factual reporting and crush local news outlets. This is the playbook https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/business/media/antigay-slur-wausau-pilot-review.html

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell@mastodon.social

· 46mo ago

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@mmasnick@mastodon.social You should be third-party turbo-banned for even acknowledging the account exists.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell@mastodon.social

· 44mo ago

The senator who wants to ban one of America's most popular apps believes (wrongly) that it's "reading your emails," and other fun facts from @geoffreyfowler@federated.press's smart reality check on TikTok's risks, both real and overblown

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/03/tiktok-delete-advice/

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell@mastodon.social

· 46mo ago

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@MattBinder@mastodon.social I appealed; no update yet. Interesting how your final judgment email doesn't list what rule you broke.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell@mastodon.social

· 46mo ago

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@szhang_ds@ioc.exchange Yes. So the precedent now is that a journalist covering a news story can be banned for even referencing the existence of an account that uses public and legally acquired flight data on an entirely different website.

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