{"id":1778059,"date":"2022-12-16T16:02:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T21:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778059"},"modified":"2022-12-16T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T21:02:59","slug":"nbc-senior-reporter-suspended-from-elon-musk-coverage-over-mocking-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-senior-reporter-suspended-from-elon-musk-coverage-over-mocking-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Senior Reporter Suspended From Elon Musk Coverage Over Mocking Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnbc-senior-reporter-suspended-from-elon-musk-coverage-over-mocking-tweets%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778059&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nbc-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News<\/a> has temporarily barred one of its senior reporters, Ben Collins, from appearing on its airwaves to report on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The temporary suspension, which covers both NBC and MSNBC, was instated because of Collins\u2019 activity on the social media platform Twitter. Collins, who covers disinformation and extremism on the internet, violated NBC News\u2019 editorial standards in a number of tweets critical of Musk, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/12\/16\/2022\/newsrooms-are-scrambling-to-counter-elon-musks-bans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Semafor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Collins has ramped up criticism of Musk since the businessman purchased Twitter in a $44 billion deal earlier this year. Musk then instated a series of changes to the platform, rolling back some of Twitter\u2019s censorship policies and reinstating previously banned accounts. Collins has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oneunderscore__\/status\/1577343901114966019?s=20&#038;t=F6wcXbyAgKGV0riFe3gglA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> that Musk\u2019s decision to purchase Twitter and make the company private would remove \u201cguardrails\u201d from the site and make content moderation \u201ccapricious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of Collins\u2019 tweets reportedly cited by NBC higher-ups who made the decision to suspend the tech reporter was a post mocking Musk over his ignorance of former Twitter deputy general counsel James Baker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scandal here is that Elon Musk discovered who his company\u2019s deputy general counsel was six weeks after he purchased it,\u201d Collins tweeted on December 6.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The scandal here is that Elon Musk discovered who his company&#8217;s deputy general counsel was six weeks after he purchased it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vGgKrHcOHv\">pic.twitter.com\/vGgKrHcOHv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oneunderscore__\/status\/1600313926293626880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Collins\u2019 suspension, which was instated sometime earlier, was revealed after Twitter suspended a group of prominent journalists after the company instated a new policy banning the sharing of people\u2019s real-time location. A few of those suspended include Drew Harwell of The Washington Post, Ryan Mac of The New York Times, and Donie O\u2019Sullivan of CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The series of bans followed Musk\u2019s decision to kick off an account that tracked the entrepreneur\u2019s private jet. Musk said the real-time tracking of people is a safety issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info,\u201d Musk said in a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1603181423787380737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweets<\/a> on Wednesday explaining the new policy. \u201cPosting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn\u2019t a safety problem, so is ok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night, car carrying lil X in LA was followed by crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked car from moving &#038; climbed onto hood,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Media outlets employing some of the suspended journalists released statements criticizing Twitter\u2019s action, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/15\/technology\/twitter-suspends-journalist-accounts-elon-musk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight\u2019s suspension of the Twitter accounts of a number of prominent journalists, including The New York Times\u2019s Ryan Mac, is questionable and unfortunate,\u201d NYT spokesman Charlie Stadtlander said in a statement. \u201cNeither The Times nor Ryan have received any explanation about why this occurred. We hope that all of the journalists\u2019 accounts are reinstated and that Twitter provides a satisfying explanation for this action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN spokeswoman Kristine Coratti Kelly said the suspensions are \u201cconcerning but not surprising\u201d and that \u201cTwitter\u2019s increasing instability and volatility should be of incredible concern for everyone who uses\u201d the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News has temporarily barred one of its senior reporters, Ben Collins, from appearing on its airwaves to report on Elon Musk. The temporary suspension, which covers both NBC and MSNBC, was instated because of Collins\u2019 activity on the social media platform Twitter. Collins, who covers disinformation and extremism on the internet, violated NBC News\u2019 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1778062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[3711,6202,4249,5154,4250,7471,5046,7400,4595,6568,6195],"class_list":["post-1778059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-coverage","tag-daily","tag-elon","tag-mocking","tag-musk","tag-nbc","tag-reporter","tag-senior","tag-suspended","tag-tweets","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1778062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}