JURIST: Twitter Upholds Suspension of JURIST Journalist in Residence Steve Herman
This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Steve Herman, and was originally published here.
Twitter Monday upheld the suspension of VOA Chief National Correspondent and JURIST Journalist in Residence Steve Herman’s Twitter account. Twitter first suspended Herman’s account, along with those of other journalists, on December 15. Twitter continues to claim that Herman’s tweets, containing reference to accounts that track public flight data of Twitter owner Elon Musk, violate Twitter’s new rules against “posting private information.”
Herman posted the response to his appeal of Twitter’s decision to ban his account on his Mastodon account Monday. Twitter’s response to Herman’s appeal read, in part, “Our support team has determined that a violation did take place, and therefore we will not overturn our decision.” Twitter also told Herman that he would be unable to access Twitter unless he removed the content that had been flagged.
Herman told JURIST he was disappointed with Twitter’s decision saying: “As before, I do not intend to remove the tweets as that would be an admission that I did something wrong and would set a precedent for arbitrary and capricious censorship.”
Twitter first instituted its rules against posting private information in early December. The privacy policy states that Twitter users “may not publish or post other people’s private information...
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