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The accounts of several high-profile US journalists were suspended by Elon Musks on Twitter on Thursday night, with the billionaire suggesting they violated a recently created policy on sharing location information.

At least seven prominent journalists who cover Musk and his company have been removed from the platform. They included Ryan Mac of The New York Times, Donie OSullivan of CNN and Drew Harwell of The Washington Post.

The suspensions followed controversy over the removal of elonjet, an account created by Jack Sweeney, a 20-year-old American student, which shared publicly available data about the whereabouts of the Musks private jet.

After deleting the elonjet account, Musk announced a policy change on Twitter on Wednesday that prohibits any disclosure of users’ live locations. He said the Elonjet account put his family at risk, referring to what he said was an altercation involving his son and a crazed stalker. Musk said he plans to take legal action against Sweeney.

Some of the suspended reporters, through their reporting, had referenced a new elonjet account Sweeney created on Mastodon, an emerging Twitter rival. The Twitter account of the nonprofit company that develops Mastodon was also suspended on Thursday.

The same doxxing rules apply to journalists as everyone else, Musk wrote on Twitter after the bans. In online parlance, doxxing generally refers to the act of posting previously private information about a person, such as a home address.

Musk previously said the existence of the elonjet account on Twitter was proof of his commitment to free speech on the platform.

Musk could not be reached for further comment. Twitter no longer has a PR team.

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