• The New York Times, CNN, and the Washington are locked out of their accounts.
• No reasoning and justification were given.
• Doxing can result in suspension of seven days.

Several well-known journalists who were following the company’s leader, Elon Musk, on Twitter had their accounts unexpectedly suspended.

On Thursday night, a number of journalists from The New York Times, CNN, and the Washington Post discovered that they were locked out of their accounts.

According to a Twitter spokesperson, the restriction on live location sharing was related to privacy concerns.

After threatening to sue the owner of a profile that tracks his jet, Mr. Musk announced it.

The Intercept’s Micha Lee, Mashable’s Matt Binder, and independent reporters Aaron Rupar and Tony Webster are also on the list of prohibited journalists.

The New York Times spokesman referred to the suspensions as “questionable and sad,” adding that neither the publication nor writer Ryan Mac had received any justification for the decision.

The abrupt and unjustifiable suspension of several reporters, according to CNN, “is worrying but not surprising.” It has enquired into the matter with Twitter and promises to “reevaluate our partnership depending on that response.”

The move was noteworthy, according to CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, whose account was among those that were suspended, because of “the potential chilling influence” it could have on journalists, particularly those who cover Mr. Musk’s other companies.

In a tweet, Mr. Musk said that while “criticising me all day long is entirely fine, but doxxing my real-time whereabouts and endangering my family is not.” He did not directly address the suspensions.

A temporary seven-day suspension is applied to accounts that engage in doxing, which is the online disclosure of private information about persons.

According to Ella Irwin, the head of trust and safety at Twitter, prohibitions are tied to a new policy that was announced on Wednesday and forbids sharing “live location information, including information provided on Twitter directly or links to 3rd-party URL(s) of travel routes.”

Without commenting on any individual accounts, Mrs. Irwin assured the publication that “we will suspend any accounts that breach our privacy policies and endanger other users.”

Journalists and other accounts are not exempt from this rule, according to the statement.

Twitter suspended the @ElonJet account and other accounts that were tracking his private aircraft using information that was made available to the public on Wednesday.

The personal account of Jack Sweeney, the 20-year-old founder of @ElonJet, was also suspended. Since then, Mr. Musk has pledged to sue him as well as “organisations who advocated harm to my family.”

According to Mr. Musk, a “crazy stalker” tracked down and approached a car carrying his kids in Los Angeles via live location sharing.

Mastodon, which Musk acquired for $44 billion in October and which has since gained popularity as a Twitter substitute, has had its official account suspended by Twitter.

It happened when Mastodon, according to The New York Times, on Thursday promoted Mr. Sweeney’s new account on Twitter.

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