United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “very disturbed” by Elon Musk’s suspension of journalists from Twitter and calls it a harmful precedent, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric stated on Friday.

“We are very disturbed by the arbitrary suspension of accounts of journalists that we saw on Twitter,” Stephane Dujarric stated throughout a press briefing.

Dujarric stated media voices shouldn’t be silenced on a platform that professes to be an area for freedom of speech. The spokesperson stated this transfer units a harmful precedent at a time when journalists all around the world are going through censorship, bodily threats, and even worse.

On Thursday, Elon Musk-led Twitter suspended the accounts of a number of journalists with the positioning exhibiting “account suspended” notices for them.

Answering the query if the UN will contemplate its resolution on involvement in Twitter, the UN spokesperson stated, “We are monitoring day-by-day developments. Twitter by its very dominance of the market, remains an extremely important platform for us to share factual information.”

“We have also seen a very concerning rise on the platform of hate speech, disinformation on climate and other topics. So we are just following the situation closely,” he added.

Twitter has suspended accounts of roughly half a dozen distinguished journalists, who’ve been masking the social media web site and its proprietor Elon Musk, citing they’d violated guidelines towards “doxxing.”

The suspended accounts embrace these of Ryan Mac of The New York Times, Donie O’Sullivan of CNN, Drew Harwell of The Washington Post, Matt Binder of Mashable, Micah Lee of The Intercept, political journalist Keith Olbermann, Aaron Rupar and Tony Webster, each unbiased journalists, the New York Times reported.

The social media platform displayed “account suspended” notices on the accounts of those journalists.

The growth follows a coverage replace made by Twitter on Thursday (native time) prohibiting the sharing of “live location information, including information shared on Twitter directly or links to 3rd-party URL(s) of travel routes.”

A Twitter person Mike Solana, in his tweet identified that the suspended accounts had posted hyperlinks to jet trackers on different web sites. Responding to Solana, Musk stated “Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else.”

Further in his response to Solana’s tweet, Musk wrote, “Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not.”

“They posted my exact real-time location, basically assassination coordinates, in (obvious) direct violation of Twitter terms of service,” Musk tweeted.