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December 16, 2022 Story: Divya Sinha

Twitter suspended the accounts of journalists from The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post and other news publications on Thursday.

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To this, the German Foreign Office tweeted screenshots of the journalist's account banned from Twitter on Friday.

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The tweet detailed that "Press freedom cannot be switched on and off on a whim.”

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Further, they warned Twitter stating, “We have a problem with that, @Twitter."

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Wolfgang Buechner, deputy government spokesperson quote retweeted and mentioned that the arbitrary suspension of journalist accounts on Twitter is unacceptable.

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Buechner added that if this continues, he will leave this platform and also share his Mastodon id with his followers.

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The accounts of these journalists were suspended a day after Twitter altered its policies on accounts that doxx live locations.

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