{"id":8329,"date":"2022-12-16T18:40:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/16\/twitters-suspension-of-journalists-sets-dangerous-precedent-un-warns\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T18:40:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:40:01","slug":"twitters-suspension-of-journalists-sets-dangerous-precedent-un-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/16\/twitters-suspension-of-journalists-sets-dangerous-precedent-un-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter\u2019s suspension of journalists sets \u2018dangerous precedent\u2019, UN warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure grows on Elon Musk as EU says social media platform could face sanctions over suspensions<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations is \u201cvery disturbed\u201d by Twitter\u2019s abrupt and arbitrary suspension of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/dec\/15\/twitter-suspends-accounts-journalists-musk\">group of US journalists<\/a>, a spokesperson has said, warning that the move sets a \u201cdangerous precedent\u201d \u2013 as the EU said the social media platform could face penalties over the decision.<\/p>\n<p> St\u00e9phane Dujarric said on Friday the UN was \u201cvery disturbed\u201d by the barring of prominent tech reporters at news organisations including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/14\/tech\/elonjet-twitter-suspended\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/12\/14\/elonjet-twitter-suspension-jack-sweeney-talks\/\">Washington Post<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/14\/technology\/twitter-private-jet-accounts-suspended.html\">New York Times<\/a> who have written about Musk and the tech company he owns.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/dec\/16\/twitter-elon-musk-suspension-journalists-sets-dangerous-precedent-un-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/64c86dfee14e94ced10860747e090cec1194179c\/0_0_6048_3628\/master\/6048.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fb1c33596380e205590b4e8bec868a7e\" title=\"Twitter\u2019s suspension of journalists sets \u2018dangerous precedent\u2019, UN warns\" \/>Pressure grows on Elon Musk as EU says social media platform could face sanctions over suspensions<br \/>\nThe United Nations is \u201cvery disturbed\u201d by Twitter\u2019s abrupt and arbitrary suspension of a group of US journalists, a spokesperson has said, warning that the move sets a \u201cdangerous precedent\u201d \u2013 as the EU said the social media platform could face penalties over the decision.<br \/>\n St\u00e9phane Dujarric said on Friday the UN was \u201cvery disturbed\u201d by the barring of prominent tech reporters at news organisations including CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times who have written about Musk and the tech company he owns. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure grows on Elon Musk as EU says social media platform could face sanctions over suspensions The United Nations is \u201cvery disturbed\u201d by Twitter\u2019s abrupt and arbitrary suspension of a group of US journalists, a spokesperson has said, warning that the move sets a \u201cdangerous precedent\u201d \u2013 as the EU said the social media platform &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/16\/twitters-suspension-of-journalists-sets-dangerous-precedent-un-warns\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter\u2019s suspension of journalists sets \u2018dangerous precedent\u2019, UN warns<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}