CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan was one of the journalists suspended by Twitter on Thursday for spreading information that Twitter considers to be reach the threshold of doxing. On Friday, he traveled over to Amanpour and Company which airs domestically on PBS and internationally on CNN International to warn of the “chilling effect” this may have on other journalists who cover Elon Musk.
With no sense of irony, guest host Paula Newton wondered if Musk is so sensitive, would he ban President Biden or French President Emmanuel Macron next, “Yeah. I mean, the point is — Donie, it’s you today. Is it the president tomorrow? Is Biden going to say something? Is Macron going to say something to criticize him? I mean, there is a lot at stake here.”
O’Sullivan at least managed to acknowledge, “Twitter under its old management already kicked off a president of the United States, although in very, very — a different circumstances after, of course, the attack on the U.S. Capitol.”
[It also kicked off an entire media outlet — the New York Post — for publishing and tweeting an accurate report about Hunter Biden. Twitter has been “chilling” dissent on a broad range of issues such as pandemic lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine efficacy, and so on. For a reporter whose beat is Twitter, O’Sullivan seems a bit uninformed about its long history of “chilling” speech. — Ed]
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