CNN host Jim Acosta said he was “blocked” from using his Twitter account because of the platform’s controversial new policy that prohibits “free promotion of prohibited third-party competitors,” including Mastodon, Instagram and Facebook.
Acosta noted that Twitter suspended his account Saturday night, and when he woke up Sunday, he said the platform had found one of his tweets mentioning Mastodon and that the Post’s accounts were violating the policy.
Twitter, which appears to still be enforcing the policy despite deleting a page detailing the new move, explained on its website on Sunday that policy violations include “linking” to competitive platforms, along with link aggregation websites such as linktr .and and.
On Twitter, Acosta mentions that he is “on both Post and Mastodon” and tweeted that he will tell followers “all aboutHis Saturday show on the Post and Mastodon… however, both his name and the tweet either did not include or included the @ signs from Acosta’s accounts.
HuffPost reached out to Twitter to determine why the platform blocked Acosta from her account.
“I’m still trying to figure it out … it all seems very arbitrary and a little hectic,” Acosta said during an interview with Business Insider reporter Linette Lopez.
Lopez, one of the reporters who saw his account suspended on the platform, said he had not heard anything from Twitter regarding his account, which he said he was still unable to access. Lopez has reported on the billionaire and his businesses for years.
She told Acosta that she found the platform’s new policy funny and recalled a time when Elon Musk shared images from his Facebook profile during “a Twitter campaign against it.”
You can watch Acosta’s interview with Lopez below.
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