Twitter Spaces , the audio feature that allows people to participate in grouping chats using the social media platform , has been disabled and it ’s not clear whether it will ever return . The move comes after Elon Musk joined a radical chat hosted by BuzzFeed reporter Katie Notopoulos on Thursday night , where the Twitter CEO utter incoherently about his new rules around what the billionaire call “ doxxing . ”
Musk banned at least10 different journalistson Thursday night that he aver share his location in real metre . In reality , those diary keeper were merely reporting on the controversy surround the @ElonJets Twitter account , which pull publicly available data about various aircraft .
Notopoulos started a Twitter Spaces chat after the forbidding on journalists , and at least three of the people who had been ban were able to join the conversation , including Matt Binder from Mashable , Drew Harwell from the Washington Post , and Jack Sweeney , the 20 - year - old college student behind ElonJets .
Elon Musk arrives at the justice center in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, 29 March 2025.Photo: Matt Rourke, File (AP)
Jason Calacanis , a speculation capitalist who was brought on at Twitter during Musk ’s acquisition but says he not longer work for the party , also joined the conversation , berating Sweeney and lift savage hypotheticals . Calacanis asked Sweeney repeatedly how he would feel if Musk or his family phallus were killed , a rather incendiary dubiousness given the fact that there ’s no grounds anyone has used @ElonJets to haunt or beset Musk .
Musk has claimed @ElonJets set his family in danger , but state as of late as a few weeks ago that he ’d allow the Twitter account to stay active because he believes in free speech . That obviously changed this workweek and Musk has even enounce he ’ll take sound action against the manbehind the account .
Musk also unite the Twitter Spaces chat with Notopoulos , but did n’t seem to make a lot of sentience during his brief show .
“ As I ’m sure everyone who ’s been doxxed would agree , drawing real - meter information about somebody ’s location is inappropriate and I think everyone on this call would not like that to be done to them . And there ’s not going to be any distinction in the time to come between journalists , so - called journalists , and even people . Everyone ’s pass to be treat the same , ” Musk said .
Journalists are obviously the target of frequent doxxing , especially those who cover on far - right movements like QAnon or Trumpism . But Musk seemed to trust his was a extra case and that his condition were surpassing .
“ They ’re not special because you ’re a journalist . You ’re a Twitter … you ’re a … you ’re a citizen . So , no special treatment . You doxx , you get suspended , end of story , ” Musk continued .
The Book “ doxxing ” has traditionally been used to mean the share-out of individual information such as a home address or private phone phone number in a public manner , but the Christian Bible can intend different things to different multitude .
“ And ban evasion , or trying to be cagey about it … like , oh , I posted a link to the genuine - time info is obviously a … that is obviously only essay to evade the signification . That is … it ’s no different from paste … from in reality deal real - time information , ” Musk said , clearly skin to make his peak .
The full term “ ban escape ” had a very specific meaning at Twitter until Musk took over , mean someone originate a new accounting after getting banned on the platform . But Musk obviously has a unlike definition for that condition too .
Notopoulos asked if report on the controversy around ElonJets , a high - profile saga since it postulate one of the world ’s rich people , was enough to ban someone under these new principle .
“ When you ’re saying , posting links to it … some of the people , like Drew , and Ryan Mac from the New York Times , they were report on it in the course of pretty normal journalistic endeavors . You consider that , like , a slick try at ban evasion ? ” Notopoulos asked .
“ You partake a link to the real - clock time information … ban escape , obviously , ” Musk enunciate .
“ Drew , I do n’t suppose you were posting the real - time information , correct ? ” Notopoulos asked Drew Harwell from the Washington Post .
“ You ’re suggesting that we ’re sharing your address , which is not on-key . And you ’re indicate … ” Harwell said .
“ It is true , ” Musk interrupted .
“ We never … I never posted your address , ” Harwell suppose .
“ You brand a link to the address , ” Musk claimed , though it ’s not clear how a flight tracker might be call an destination .
Musk has recently claimed that someone was stalking his 2 - twelvemonth - honest-to-goodness son , even posting a television of someone he claimed had stop his car , and has tried to suggest this was a direct result of the ElonJets account . But open - source word researchers have located where the video was taken , noting it wasnowhere near an airportand roughly a 24-hour interval later than any flight by Musk ’s secret jet .
“ In the course of reporting about ElonJet we mail link to ElonJet , which are now not online , and are now ostracise on Twitter , ” Harwell explained .
But then Harwell land up the fashion in which Twitter was now blocking link to ElonJet on other societal media platforms , similar to how the Hunter Biden laptop story was block off in 2020 , and Musk was clearly caught off - guard .
“ Twitter also , of course , mark even the Instagram and Mastodon account of ElonJet as harmful , using … we have to recognise , using the same exact link - blocking technique that you have criticize as part of the Hunter Biden - New York Post story in 2020 , ” Harwell said .
“ It ’s no more acceptable for me … . for you than it is for me … it ’s the same matter , ” Musk said incoherently .
There was an awkward silence on the New World chat as Harwell and the moderators were intelligibly trying to make common sense of what the billionaire was trying to say .
“ So , anyway … ” Musk persist in .
“ So it ’s unacceptable , what you ’re doing ? ” Harwell asked .
“ No , what … you doxx , you get set aside , end of story , that ’s it , ” Musk said , before leaving the call .
Notopoulos tried to ask a follow - up question , but by then it had become clear Musk had leave because he was flustered by getting asked existent question , rather than the more typical Twitter Space conversation where far - right Twitter users say him how great he is .
Typically , after a live Twitter Spaces conversation has conclude , users are able to heed to the conversation . But the chat hosted by Notopoulos was ignore short before she ended it herself , and is n’t available in its integrality . Some Twitter and YouTube users haveposted clipsfrom the conversation that are still useable as of this writing .
“ Huh , appears the recording of this blank space is strangely not available , mirthful that ! Thanks to everyone who tuned in ! countenance ’s do it again sometime , ” Notopoulostweeted .
At this point it ’s obviously a futile exercise to try and make any sensory faculty of Twitter ’s rules . Musk ’s determination to keep Alex Jones banned , while reinstating several neo - Nazis , take it open that content easing on the platform is found exclusively on the billionaire ’s whim .
And Musk is wholly within his right to moderate Twitter however he likes , since he buy the platform for $ 44 billion . But he should stop saying he has some deeper commitment to “ innocent speech authoritarianism ” or whatever bullshit he ’s peddling this week . Own what you ’re really doing and people will have a little more respect for you .
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