Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz has been suspended from Twitter, while other social media sites have been banned from advertising

Controversial Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz says she was suspended from Twitter at the behest of her owner Elon Musk.

Lorenz made the claim in a Substack post, adding that it did not and had not violated Twitter’s terms of service.

On Substack, Lorenz claimed that she only had three tweets on her account at the time of the suspension. One was a tweet sent to Musk.

Lorenz claimed that she and colleague Drew Harwell (who was also banned by Musk earlier this week) were “working and hoping for a story with Musk”. [a] comments from him.”

“When I tried to log in to see if he had responded to our question, I was suspended,” Lorenz said in the Substack post. “I have not received any communication from the company about why I was suspended or what terms I violated.”

“I’ve been on Twitter since 2010 and have Twitter accounts for major media brands like Verizon, WordPress, The Daily Mail, People magazine, The Hill and dozens more,” she added. “In my 13-year social media career, I have never received a single violation of the Terms of Service or the Community Guidelines, either on my personal account or on any account I manage.”

She further lamented that a ban on journalists “should worry anyone who values ​​freedom of expression.”

Earlier this week, Musk banned several journalists from The Washington Post, CNN, The New York Times and other publications. He claimed they were “doxxing” him by sharing his real-time location, which he called “murder coordinates.”

He originally said the journalists involved would be suspended from the platform for seven days. But after launching a poll on the matter — indicating that most people want them reinstated — Musk came back and lifted his ban.

Lorenz criticized Musk’s decision to release the so-called “Twitter files” detailing arbitrary bans on conservatives and government pressure on social media to quash unfavorable comments about the regime.

In other Twitter messages, the service has decided to stop advertising other social media sites on its service.