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On Thursday, Twitter suspended the accounts of multiple high-profile journalists who cover owner Elon Musk. Elon Musk later dropped into Twitter Spaces, where reporters asked why the accounts were suspended. Multiple reporters, many of whom cover tech, including Musk and Twitter, saw their Twitter accounts suspended without warning or explanation on Thursday. Twitter suspended that account on Wednesday despite Musk, who has called himself a free-speech absolutist, tweeting in November that he wouldn't do so. Twitter Spaces later stopped working, which Musk says happened to fix a "legacy bug," but several Twitter users recorded the exchange between Musk and the reporters.
Elon Musk has said that journalists are "not special" and are "Twitter citizens." It comes after Twitter suspended the accounts of some journalists who reported on Musk. It comes after Twitter suspended several accounts of prominent journalists who reported on him, including those from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN. "They're not special because you're a journalist," the billionaire said, adding that they're "just a Twitter citizen." CNN called the suspension of some of its journalists' accounts "concerning, but not surprising."
This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Kristen, 32, a Chicago-based server best known for her TikTok account, @NotKahnJunior. Kristen uses her TikTok account to "consensually dox" users and reveal their birthdays using just social media. I get a lot of comments that say, "There's no way you can find me because I don't have any information about myself on my TikTok. I'm just the TikTok birthday woman, you know? I don't know if more people want to be anonymous.
Today, I am introducing you to a viral phenomenon that certainly wasn't on my 2022 bingo card: "consensual doxxing." Meet a TikToker who's gone viral for her "consensual doxxing" content. But one TikToker has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers who want her to expose their secrets. Kristen uses her platform to "consensually dox" users and reveal their birthdays using just social media — and has become a data-privacy educator by proxy. Users are often shocked by how easy it is for her to find out their information, Kristen said.
Opponents often coordinate protests at drag events that feature or cater to children, sometimes showing up with guns. Some politicians have proposed banning children from drag events and even criminally charging parents who take their kids to one. Is drag sexual? Many drag opponents cite nudity in their objections. Threats to drag events, and story hours in particular, have increased along with the rhetoric.
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