Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz’s Twitter account was suspended on Saturday. She announced the news Saturday night via her TikTok account and her Substack account. She claims that Elon Musk was personally involved in her suspension.

Lorenz recently scrubbed her Twitter account and, she claims, it only had three tweets on it when she was suspended. Two of those tweets included links to her other social media accounts and the third tweet was one sent to Musk.

Lorenz and her colleague Drew Harwell, who is also banned from Twitter, were “working on a story involving Musk and were hoping to get a comment from him,” she wrote.

“When I went to log in and see if he had responded to our query, I was suspended,” Lorenz said in the Substack post. “I received zero communication from the company on why I was suspended or what terms I violated.”

“I have been on Twitter since 2010 and have run Twitter account for major media brands including Verizon, WordPress, The Daily Mail, People magazine, The Hill, and dozens more,” she added. “Never once in my 13-year career in social media have I received a single terms of service or community guidelines violation, for my personal account or any account that I’ve run.”

She was critical of Musk’s “arbitrary suspensions of journalists” and said bans on journalists should worry everyone. Perhaps she doesn’t appreciate that Musk made a point to say that journalists are not special – they will be held to the same standards as everyone else, including on the subject of doxxing. Lorenz is well-known for her doxxing of the identity of popular conservative Twitter personality Libs of TikTok.

In her deleted tweets, Lorenz was critical of Musk’s release of the Twitter files. Support for Lorenz is mixed. One tweet references George Conway (married to Kellyanne Conway) tweeting to Lorenz asking her to stop contacting their then 15-year-old daughter, trying to get dirt on Kellyanne in 2020.

While Taylor Lorenz complains about journalistic ethics, let us remember the time George Conway had to go on Twitter to publicly tell her to stop contacting his 15-year-old daughter for dirt on her mom.

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) December 14, 2022

@TaylorLorenz on your suspension 🤣 pic.twitter.com/VzIntZCK1c

— Mark Young (@Bacon_Ranch_) December 18, 2022

I’m not famous and I wasn’t a public figure either when Taylor Lorenz asked for my address, said it wasn’t for publication and then proceeded to dox me in the NYT with the address she had assured me she wasn’t going to publish. The article was shared many x on Twitter. @elonmusk https://t.co/dsqYai2KNn pic.twitter.com/0t80xTCuhd

— Ariadna Jacob (@littlemissjacob) December 16, 2022

It’s ironic now to read of her complaints about doxxing and other bad behavior on Twitter when she is so clearly in need of a mirror.

In 2021, Lorenz falsely accused business tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen of “using the r-slur,” which she later admitted was an error.

She was also forced to walk back a claim she was being “relentlessly” harassed by a so-called “Drudge Report editor,” later claiming it was a “joke.”

Last week, she criticized her former New York Times colleague Bari Weiss, who is one of the journalists assisting Musk in sharing the Twitter files.

Lorenz complained about her own experience being doxxed.

“The whole way trending topics works is definitely fundamentally broken. It’s just so rich to hear him [Musk] complain about doxxing and harassment,” Lorenz said in the Spaces meeting. “I mean, I am doxxed and harassed constantly on this app…That doesn’t mean that everything needs to be moderated more heavily, but I do think users deserve more control over their own experience.”

She continued: “It’s just weird because definitely, in the past few weeks for instance, people tweeting out stuff like information about my family or all this stuff that’s been used to target my family directly in the past. I’ve reported it and the reports go nowhere, like the tweets go nowhere.”

Lorenz continued: “The woman that I used to reach out to when this stuff happened at Twitter has been let go from Twitter, and I just hear this from a lot of people. So I feel like Elon focused on his own experience, but for the rest of us, it’s definitely become a less safe platform.”

Pot/kettle. It seems like she should be more aware of her own behavior after experiencing the downside of Twitter, right? Musk is running a private company. He’s as entitled to personal privacy as anyone else. Pinpointing the coordinates of his whereabouts at any given time can be easily seen as a safety risk. In his case, he was concerned about the personal safety of his family, notably his young child.

For what it’s worth, I’ll note that in the TikTok video, Lorenz is smiling and sounds upbeat, not sad or upset. She mentioned that she was at a meet-up with other journalists. As I write this, I haven’t seen a response from Musk on her suspension.

***Update*** She’s baaaack. A pinned tweet at the top of her Twitter page shows the tweet she thinks got her suspended.

Apparently this is the tweet that did me in pic.twitter.com/0VEby8qzQu

— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) December 18, 2022