Asia stocks fell for a second day in a row on Friday, and were headed for their worst week in two months, after a slew of central banks raised interests rates and warned there were more hikes to come next year.

Interest rates went up in Europe, Britain, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Mexico and Taiwan on Thursday, following a U.S. rate hike on Wednesday and central bankers’ vows to keep on raising rates until inflation is tamed had markets worried about a potential recession.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) fell 0.65% and was down 2.1% on the week.

Japan’s Nikkei (.N225) fell 1.5%.

Overnight on Wall Street the S&P 500 (.SPX) had its biggest percentage drop in more than a month and fell 2.5%.

Longer-dated bonds were firm and the U.S. dollar rallied.

“Central banks are still hawkish, still intent on raising rates,” said Alvin Tan, Asia currency strategist at RBC Capital Markets in Singapore.

“So there’s a tension between the central banks being more hawkish than the market has been expecting, and that dichotomy has been emphasised over the past 48 hours by both the Fed and the European Central Bank.”

On Thursday the European Central Bank made a 50 basis point hike like the Fed, with both opting for a smaller increase than previously, but it flagged that there were more hikes to come than investors had expected.

ECB President Christine Lagarde said current information predicates “another 50 basis point rise at our next meeting and possibly at the one after that, and possibly thereafter,” prompting traders to jack up Europe’s rate expectations.

“This is not a pivot,” she said of the smaller rate rate rise. “We are not slowing down, we are in for the long game.”

European bond yields jumped, with two-year German yields leaping 24.2 bps, their biggest one-day rise since the 2008 financial crisis.

The Bank of England announced a 50 bp hike, too, and forecast more. Even Norges Bank, which began hiking in September last year and has raised rates by 275 basis points since then, hiked 25 bps on Thursday and said it isn’t finished.

In China, where markets are churning around an uncertain reopening, relief at the apparent resolution of a long-running accounting access dispute with the United States was not enough to drive a rally, and the Hang Seng (.HSI) fell 1%.

The prospect of higher near-term rates also has investors nervous about longer-run growth as there are growing signs that a worldwide slowdown is gathering pace.

Japan’s manufacturing activity shrank at the fastest pace in more than two years in December, a corporate survey showed on Friday. U.S. retail sales fell more than expected in November as some of the consumption momentum ebbs away from the economy.

Ten-year Treasuries rallied a little bit, with the yield falling five basis points, before steadying in Asia at 2.4736%. Larger moves were in currencies, where the dollar arrested its recent slide with its sharpest jump in two months.

The dollar index rose 0.9%. The dollar jumped 1.7% and through its 200-day moving average on the yen, where it was last broadly steady at 137.37 yen . The Aussie dollar had it worst session in two years and dropped 2.4%.

“This time it wasn’t U.S. bond yields driving the move, instead it was just a feeling that if Fed policy remains tighter for longer … it could be tough going for risk assets,” strategists at ANZ bank said in a market note.

“The Fed may not be hiking as fast, but it still has the highest policy rate in the G10 and will be one of the few central banks to take policy (rates) past 5%.”

Gold fell against the rising dollar, dropping 1.7% to sit at $1,777 an ounce in Asia. Oil gave back some recent gains with Brent crude futures down 1.8% overnight and steady on Friday at $81.33 a barrel.

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Twitter Inc on Thursday suspended the accounts of several journalists, including ones from the New York Times and the Washington Post, with the site showing “account suspended” notices for them.

Reuters could not immediately ascertain why those accounts were suspended. All the suspended reporters have in recent months written about Twitter’s owner, billionaire Elon Musk, and changes at the platform since he bought it.

Responding to a Tweet on the account suspensions, Musk tweeted: “Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else,” a reference to Twitter rules banning sharing of personal information, called doxxing.

He added: “Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not.”

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

On Thursday, Twitter suspended @elonjet, an account tracking Musk’s private jet in real time, a month after he said his commitment to free speech extended to not banning the account.

The accounts of Times reporter Ryan Mac (@rmac18), Post reporter Drew Harwell (@drewharwell), CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan (@donie), and Mashable reporter Matt Binder @MattBinder were suspended. The account of independent journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar), who covers U.S. policy and politics, was also suspended.

A spokesperson for The New York Times said: “Tonight’s suspension of the Twitter accounts of a number of prominent journalists, including The New York Times’s Ryan Mac, is questionable and unfortunate. Neither The Times nor Ryan have received any explanation about why this occurred. We hope that all of the journalists’ accounts are reinstated and that Twitter provides a satisfying explanation for this action.”

The other reporters could not immediately be reached.

The official account of social media company Mastodon (@joinmastodon), which has emerged as an alternative to Twitter since Musk bought the company for $44 billion in October, was also suspended. Mastodon could not immediately be reached for comment.

Twitter is now leaning heavily on automation to moderate content, doing away with certain manual reviews and favoring restrictions on distribution rather than removing certain speech outright, its new head of trust and safety Ella Irwin told Reuters this month.

North Korea has tested a high-thrust solid-fuel engine that experts said would allow quicker and more mobile launch of ballistic missiles, as it seeks to develop a new strategic weapon and speeds up its nuclear and missile programmes.

The test, overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, was conducted on Thursday at North Korea’s Sohae Satellite Launching Ground which has been used to test missile technologies, including rocket engines and space launch vehicles, the official KCNA news agency reported on Friday.

Experts say the test appears aimed at developing a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) given the thrust of the engine, which the North said was “the first of its kind” in the country.

North Korea has been working to build more solid-fuel missiles that are more stable and can be launched with almost no warning or preparation time.

“Compared to liquid-propellant weapons, solid-fuel missiles are more mobile, quicker to launch, and easier to conceal and use during a conflict,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor of international studies at Ewha University in Seoul.

“Once deployed, the technology would make North Korea’s nuclear forces more versatile, survivable, and dangerous.”

Lim Eul-chul, a professor of North Korean studies at Kyungnam University in South Korea, said the latest test signals North Korea’s push to build more powerful ICBMs and submarine-launched ballisitc missiles (SLBMs).

“We cannot rule out the possibility of the North test-firing an ICBM with a new solid-fuel rocket next year,” Lim said.

Developing a solid-fuel ICBM was part of the North’s five military tasks rolled out at its key party meeting last year.

After overseeing the test, Kim said “another important problem in carrying out the five priority tasks” was successfully solved, and expressed “expectation that another new-type strategic weapon would be made in the shortest span of time,” according to KCNA.

In one of the photos released by KCNA, Kim was seen smiling with a cigarette in one hand as large smoke cloud is visible behind him.

North Korea has conducted an unprecedented number of missile tests this year, including an ICBM capable of reaching the U.S. mainland, despite international bans and sanctions.

A new report by the U.S.-based Center for International and Strategic Studies (CSIS) said commercial satellite imagery shows construction of what appears to be a horizontal engine test stand, describing it as the “first of its kind” at the Sohae station that would boost the facility’s capabilities.

“We are concerned about North Korea’s media report, and are monitoring its activities,” an official at South Korea’s unification ministry handling inter-Korean affairs said.

The latest test comes as International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi is in Seoul for talks with South Korean officials during which he vowed an all-out effort to stop North Korea’s nuclear programme.

During his meeting with Grossi, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol expressed concerns over North Korea’s “race” to advance its nuclear and missile programmes, calling for the U.N. agency’s cooperation to deter Pyongyang from further provocations.

South Korean and U.S. officials have said the North has completed preparations for a potential nuclear test, which would be the first since 2017.

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(NewsNation) — Shocking video out of London shows a slingshot ride snapping, leaving two riders trapped.

It happened Wednesday night at the Hyde Park Winter Wonderland.

Seconds after the passengers boarded the ride, you can see the cable snap. According to multiple sources, both passengers are okay.

“The bungee cords, trust me are not supposed to detach or break,” Ken Martin, a safety analyst and consultant, told NewsNation. “They can be dangerous. But unless you do something stupid, they’re not dangerous.”

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a thriller ride like this malfunction.

“We’re killing, completely, too many people every year. Earlier this year in March, a 15-year-old boy was killed after he fell off the drop tower. Could that have happened to this bungee? Well, yes.”

Martin says a solution is amusement ride oversight, calling it limited not only in the United States, but around the world.

“We need a set of regulations that covers everything civil and criminal. I’ve been a long standing advocate of people being charged criminally in these incidents,” Martin said.

(NewsNation) — The demand for medical gender-affirming treatments in children and adolescents has surged in the last few years, even as it has also become one of the country’s more polarizing issues, with some states even outlawing the procedures entirely. 

Recent data shows a massive influx of young patients seeking gender-affirming healthcare. Between 2017 and 2021, more than 17,000 patients aged 6-17 had initiated hormone or puberty blockers.

Most major American medical groups support gender-affirming treatment and procedures for children and adolescents who want it. But now, some prominent doctors in the field are urging the medical community to slow down.

Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper is a founding psychologist at the first pediatric gender clinic in the country, located at Boston Children’s Hospital. Over the years, the world leader in transgender health has successfully helped hundreds of children transition. 

“When I started doing this work, gender-affirming care, basically involved listening to the young person, trusting that they had a sense of who they were, and helping them sort out what was gonna be best for them,” she said.

One of her success stories is 18-year-old Noah Baartmans, who transitioned from female to male under her care. 

“All my life I felt kind of uncomfortable in my gender,” Baartmans said. “I always felt like I fit in more with boys and the stereotypes that go with being a boy. It wasn’t necessarily a feeling, it was just something that I felt I was.”

Five years ago, Baartmans says he felt so uncomfortable as a girl that he considered suicide and was hospitalized. “I felt that the only way forward was to transition,” he said. 

Baartmans began treatment with Edwards-Leeper, who deploys a deliberately slow and extensive process to transition. That meant months of therapy before he could start hormone therapy and then three additional years of therapy and assessments before he could have a double mastectomy. 

“I had top surgery and it went really well and I don’t have any regrets,” he said. “It improved my mental health a lot and my functioning as a human being in society.”

Baartmans says he has no regrets about his transition and his case is a testimonial to supporting gender-affirming care for children and teens who want it. 

However, Edward- Leeper says the way gender-affirming care is being handled elsewhere is getting out of control. “What I do in my practice is vastly different than what’s happening in most places,” she said.

“I do think that it has been hijacked. People have changed the meaning behind it,” she said. “Some providers consider gender-affirming care to be a very fast-moving process to get the child like to medical intervention.”

She says the patients she has worked with for longer periods of time are generally doing well, but “the field has gone completely off the rails in many respects.”

While there has been a surge in the number of children and teens seeking gender-affirming care, she often has young people who come in for therapy or assessments and later agree that slowing down their transition is a better option for them. She can sometimes spend years treating a teen before the medical transition begins. 

But elsewhere, she thinks gender clinics are “extremely overwhelmed” and “in many places” the healthcare community is rushing adolescents through the process too quickly. “They don’t have enough providers, particularly mental health providers to help,” she said. 

Transgender woman and clinical psychologist Dr. Erica Anderson agrees.

Anderson was the first transgender president of the U.S. Professional Association for Transgender Health and served as a board member for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) from 2019 to 2021.

“I think we need to reevaluate how we’re doing all of this,” she said. According to Anderson, “in many cases” kids in adolescence are going through this process too quickly.

“Some people who are doing work in this area where they say things like, ‘If a child says they’re trans, they’re trans, and I’ll afford them the advantage of medicines,’” Anderson said. “And I think I’m worried that in too many cases that they’re not doing a proper evaluation. Parents have been telling me this for a couple of years.”

According to Anderson, parents have told her some clinics have only conducted 15- to 20-minute evaluations before pronouncing the child transgender and explaining “the pathway to hormones.” 

“And in some cases, even more deplorably in my view, they do this privately with the child and then advised the parents after the session, ‘Oh, well we confirm that your child is trans. And we’ve talked to them about hormones without the parent.’”

Edwards Leeper says she has “colleagues who agree with (their concerns), but they’re terrified to say anything.”

One chief medical director at a large children’s health organization in the U.S. and would only speak to NewsNation anonymously for fear of losing his job.

“This is really the most serious abandonment of scientific principles that I have seen in the medical profession,” he said. “Very reasonable physicians have spoken their mind about this, and they’ve lost their jobs. Even people with tenure.”

He told NewsNation he is “almost certain” that would happen to him.

“What is concerning to me here is that all dialogue, all reasonable dialogue is stopped,” he said.

Some doctors claim providers cite studies about high suicide rates among transgender youth as a way to scare parents into agreeing to medical transitions. 

However, Edwards-Leeper says “there are no studies that show that by intervening medically quickly, it will decrease suicide risk.”

“To have that be used as a lever to force someone to concede to treatment that may or may not be appropriate — I think is unwise and, and borders on malfeasance,” Anderson said. 

In Europe, which was early to embrace gender care for minors, several countries have scaled back treatments and mostly paused transgender surgery for children.

“They’ve taken a step back and they’ve recognized that things have gotten out of control in some ways,” Edwards-Leeper said. “You know, just carrying on without the data.”

Now, Edwards-Leeper and Anderson say it is time for the American medical community to pull back, too.

“We are talking about young people, we’re talking about minors,” Edwards-Leeper said. “And I am very concerned about what’s happening in the field. I don’t think that we’re providing good care, and I’m concerned about potential harm being done, not intentionally, but I think that providers are not taking a step back and really questioning why are we seeing these numbers and why aren’t we looking more closely to get an answer to that? Instead, we’re just powering ahead with treatment. And I think that’s really problematic.”

Edwards-Leeper says kids and teens struggling with gender dysphoria should be helped but in a responsible way, which means approaching it in a developmentally appropriate way. 

“It means involving the parents, it means understanding the complicating factors. And we should not be stopping care. We should not be closing down clinics. That would be a horrible thing to do. But we also need to slow down and put the breaks on a little bit and take a minute to reflect on where we are and why we’re here and what is the best path forward.”

NewsNation’s Tom Palmer and Tulsi Kamath contributed to this report.

(NewsNation) — As the number of young people identifying as transgender or gender-diverse increases each year, some are now coming forward with stories of regret and caution after they feel they transitioned at too young an age. 

There are about 1.3 million adults and 300,000 teens who identify as transgender in the U.S., and this group makes up about 0.05% of the population. 

Medical transitions have come under increasing scrutiny, particularly as it relates to children and teens diagnosed with gender dysphoria — in which a person feels distressed identifying as the gender assigned to them at birth — whose numbers have tripled since 2017. 

An October survey found about 8% of responding transgender and gender-diverse adults have detransitioned, though most (62%) say they went back to being trans. However, there are virtually no studies or data on the detransition rates among teens. 

Though it’s a small group, those who have chosen to detransition — reversing or stopping medical treatments or socially/legally reverting to their gender assigned at birth — are starting to voice concerns. NewsNation spoke with three young people who chose a different path after transitioning in their teen years. 

“Every single part of my transition was a mistake, and I didn’t want to be going down that path anymore,” said 18-year-old Chloe Cole, whose medical transition began when she was 13. 

Cole told NewsNation she always felt like a tomboy, but she really started thinking about transitioning to a boy after she created an Instagram account.

“Very quickly the algorithm of Instagram actually started recommending me a bunch of, like, a lot of LGBTQ content, particularly, like trans-identified females who were on my age, like trans boys,” Cole said. 

Cole began seeing a therapist, but when her parents raised questions, her therapist warned them against discouraging her from transitioning.

“They basically said (there are) the high suicide rates amongst like, trans-identified adolescents,” Cole said. “And they basically said, ‘Would you rather have a dead daughter or a live son?’”

Cole said she had not expressed suicidal ideations to anyone before her first gender-affirming treatments began. 

At age 13, Cole said she received her first estrogen blocker and shots of testosterone. Two years later, at age 15, she decided to get a mastectomy and a year after that, at 16, she got a double mastectomy. 

“I was convinced that I was actually a boy even if I wasn’t, even if my body was female and nobody really questioned this belief at all,” Cole said. 

But after that, she said she felt regret creep in. 

“I told my mom — I kind of just broke down crying to her one night about how this was the biggest mistake in my life,” Cole said.

Feeling she had been wronged by her health care providers, Cole is now suing three doctors and the medical group that oversaw her hormone therapy and surgery. 

“I mean, my breasts are gone permanently,” Cole said. “And I have no idea about whether I’ll be able to have kids.”

A recent survey shows that of the 8% of respondents who chose to detransition either temporarily or permanently, many cited external pressures for their decision. They felt pressure from loved ones, had a hard time finding a job or said the transition process was too much for them. The researchers noted that detransitioning was not synonymous with regret, though they said the two overlapped in some people. 

Two people who told NewsNation they regretted their transitions and have since detransitioned are 24-year-old Helena Kerschner and 20-year-old Luka, who asked only to be identified by her first name. 

Kerschner said she “fantasized” about getting a double mastectomy and was told by other transgender people that she would feel better once she got gender-affirming surgeries to become a man. 

“But that it didn’t feel right. And eventually, I just stopped the testosterone,” she said. 

After stopping, Kerschner said, “All of these crazy symptoms that were happening to me that wound me up in the hospital completely stopped. I haven’t experienced any of those things since stopping the testosterone. I also felt just incredibly lost because this was the way that I had been interpreting myself for about five years.”

Meanwhile, Luka began medically transitioning at 16 and “got a double mastectomy before I was on hormones.” Luka too has opted to detransition, saying, “At this point, there’s no really going all the way back. And I don’t know what to do.”

The testimonials of people like Cole, Kershner and Luka are getting the attention of prominent members of the medical community, who previously advocated for children to medically transition. Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper is one such doctor, who was one of the first clinical psychologists at the first gender clinic in the country. 

“One thing we absolutely have to do is start learning from the detransitioners. There are more and more every day,” Edwards-Leeper said. 

She said the health care community is starting to conduct clinical research on the phenomenon, but more needs to be done. 

“There are slowly studies being done, but those researchers are terrified to put their research out there,” Edwards-Leeper said. “They are attacked unbelievably for even discussing that this is a possibility. But we can’t do good clinical work if we don’t understand and learn from them to know what did we do wrong?”

Cole, Luka and Kerschner feel that it’s important for them to come forward with their stories and say it’s OK for young people to wait to transition.

“I don’t know any other mental health condition where the first step is, ‘Oh, you’re suicidal, we’re gonna give you surgery,’” Luka said. “As opposed to, ‘Oh you’re suicidal, we’re gonna give you mental health treatment and therapy and make sure that your life is maybe stable or that everything’s OK at home.’”

“We as a society have seriously failed the youngest generation, and we can’t blame them for that because they didn’t choose to feel this way at 14, 15 years old,” Kerschner said. “But the medical model that we kind of funnel the troubled kids into just has no way of really addressing this on a deep level.”

“There’s just no defending this,” Cole said. “You cannot possibly defend sterilizing and then mutilating children.”

NewsNation’s Marty Hobe and Tulsi Kamath contributed to this report.

Two people are dead and more than 50 are missing after a landslide struck a campsite in Malaysia early on Friday, officials said, as search-and-rescue personnel scoured the site for survivors.

The landslide in Selangor state, on the outskirts of capital, Kuala Lumpur, occurred about 3 a.m. (1900 GMT) on the side of a road near an organic farm with camping facilities, the state fire and rescue department said in a statement.

A total of 79 people were caught in the landslide and 23 had been found safe, the department said. In addition to the two dead, three were injured and 51 were missing.

The landslide fell from an estimated height of 30 metres (100 ft) above the campsite, and covered an area of about one acre (0.4 hectare), the department’s director, Norazam Khamis, said.

“I pray that the missing victims can be found safely soon,” Malaysia’s minister of natural resources, environment and climate change, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, tweeted on Friday morning. “The rescue team has been working since early. I’m going down there today.”

The disaster struck about 50km (30 miles) north of Kuala Lumpur in Batang Kali town, just outside the popular hilltop area of the Genting Highlands, which is known for its resorts and natural beauty.

Pictures posted on the Father’s Organic Farm Facebook page show a farmhouse in a small valley, with a large area where tents can be set up.

Footage from local television showed the aftermath of a landslide through a forested area beside a road, while other images on social media showed rescue workers clambering over thick mud, large trees and other debris.

Selangor is the country’s most affluent state and has suffered landslides before, often attributed to forest and land clearance.

The region is in its rainy season but no heavy rain or earthquakes were recorded overnight.

A year ago, about 21,000 people were displaced by flooding from torrential rain in seven states across the country.

Californian regulators voted Thursday to approve a plan to reduce the state’s carbon-dioxide emissions by 85% by 2045, reaching carbon neutrality then, including by cutting petroleum usage to one-tenth of the current level.

California’s environmental policies have led to drastic shifts away from petroleum fuels as state regulators have sought to improve public health and reduce environmental impacts of fossil fuel production. The state has also angered its fuelmakers, which argue its policies hurt fuel consumers.

Policy updates approved on Thursday were in the 2022 edition of a document called the Scoping Plan, which is revised every five years.

To achieve the 85% reduction in emissions, it requires the state to consider electrifying much of its energy usage, installing millions of heat pumps and deploying technology for carbon capture, utilization and sequestration, among other things.

Petroleum usage would have to come down by 90%, it said.

The regulator, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), said in the document that the plan would create 4 million jobs and allow the state to avoid $200 billion in pollution-related health expenditure.

The plan was needed to deal with the climate crisis that had manifested in the form of wildfires, drought and collapsing coastlines, it added.

“This plan doesn’t exist in a vacuum – its successes will really rely on implementation and rulemaking,” said CARB member Diane Takvorian ahead of the vote.

Many California residents and lobbyists from oil and transportation companies said in public comments on Thursday that they welcomed the changes in the plan. Some argued that the proposed policies were imperfect, however.

These included what critics said was over-reliance on nascent carbon-capture technology, slow permitting processes, reliance on bioenergy, and a structure for a market in credits that assigned high value to methane captured from cow manure and therefore promoted factory farming.

In January, California legislators are set to take up a proposal that would penalize refiners’ excess profits.

CARB will continue evaluating how refiners can continue to operate to export fuel, said CARB spokesperson Dave Cleghern.

Since 1990, 13 Californian refineries with a combined capacity of 3 million barrels per day (bpd) have closed. Current refining capacity in California is 1.7 million bpd.

The loss of more refining capacity could come in this decade, said David Hackett, chairman of the board of Stillwater Associates, a California energy consultancy.

Elon Musk acquired Twitter on October 27.

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• Twitter suspended several journalists’ accounts on Thursday.
• Many of the affected writers had been covering or criticizing Elon Musk in the preceding days.
• It was not immediately clear what had prompted the wave of suspensions. 

Twitter on Thursday suspended several accounts belonging to prominent journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and his tenure at the social media website with little explanation as to why.

Among the affected accounts were Donie O’Sullivan with CNN, Drew Harwell of The Washington Post, independent journalists Aaron Rupar, Keith Olbermann and Tony Webster, The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, and other writers on the tech and Twitter beat.

Rupar told Insider that he was still in the dark as to why his account was suddenly suspended. A notice at the top of his account as of Thursday informed him that he had been “permanently suspended” and restricted to read-only mode, leaving him unable to DM or tweet, he said. 

“That’s the only information from Twitter, no email, no info about what rule I might have broken,” he said.

Twitter also suspended the account for Mastodon, a social media platform that has marketed itself as an alternative to Twitter. 

Neither Musk, nor a representative for Twitter immediately responded to Insider’s request for comment. 

The deluge of suspensions comes one day after Twitter suspended the account of 20-year-old student Jack Sweeney, who created a tool that automatically posted updates about Musk’s private jet’s location, and threatened legal action against him. The company soon after changed its rules to forbid posting a person’s “live location.” 

But Rupar said he hadn’t tweeted or even retweeted anything about the ongoing private jet saga. Nor did he believe he had posted any material that would have violated copyright law — another cause for suspension. Rupar did, however, tweet critically about Musk the night before his account was suspended, he said.

“That leaves me inferring I guess it was something critical I posted of Elon,” he said of the reason behind his suspension. “Maybe that’s why I received no information from Twitter; they’re probably not going to come out and say that.”

Some of the suspended journalists had previously tweeted about @ElonJet and its ongoing presence on Mastodon.  

NBC News reporter Ben Collins compiled an ongoing list of at least eight accounts that were suspended as of Thursday evening. Nearly all of them had been reporting on Twitter, covering Musk, or writing critically about the billionaire in the days leading up to their suspension.