Inferse: Journalist Who Won’t Delete Musk Tweets Remain Locked Out of Twitter This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Steve Herman, and was originally published here. Twitter owner Elon Musk said last week that the journalists he abruptly suspended for alleged rule violations were welcome to rejoin the platform after only two days [...]
Alaska Native News: Journalists Say Elon Musk Needs to Reinstitute Monitoring of Twitter This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Steve Herman, and was originally published here. Concerns linger over Twitter’s stance on free expression and safety since Elon Musk took over the platform in a $44 billion deal. Since taking ownership in [...]
JURIST: Twitter Upholds Suspension of JURIST Journalist in Residence Steve Herman This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Steve Herman, and was originally published here. Twitter Monday upheld the suspension of VOA Chief National Correspondent and JURIST Journalist in Residence Steve Herman’s Twitter account. Twitter first suspended Herman’s account, along with those of other journalists, on December 15. Twitter [...]
The Standard: Whistleblower Files Complaint to Congress Over Twitter Suspending Journalists This article features Government Accountability Project Of Counsel, Davis Seide, and was originally published here. Nearly a week after Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk said that the accounts of suspended journalists would be reinstated, at least six remain blocked. Voice of America’s chief [...]
VigourTimes: Journalists Locked Out of Twitter Accounts After Refusing to Delete Musk Tweets This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Steve Herman, and was originally published here. Several journalists remain locked out of their Twitter accounts after refusing to delete tweets about an account that tracked CEO Elon Musk’s private jet, according to The [...]
Mediaite: 'Hell No’: Journo Refuse to Give into Musk’s Demands for Twitter Accounts to Be Unlocked This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Steve Herman, and was originally published here. Elon Musk reversed course on his recent decision to suspend multiple journalists on Twitter, but many of them remain suspended as they refuse to meet [...]
Washington Post: Journalist Who Won’t Delete Musk Tweets Remains Locked Out of Twitter This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Steve Herman, and was originally published here. Twitter owner Elon Musk said last week that the journalists he abruptly suspended for alleged rule violations were welcome to rejoin the platform after only two [...]
Biden Taps Veteran Journalist to Lead Global Media Agency This article features Government Accountability Project’s Senior Counsel, David Seide, and was originally published here. President Biden formally nominated on Monday a veteran journalist to lead the global media agency, as it works to continue building trust and credibility in the post-Trump era.Amanda Bennett previously [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 31, 2021 Government Accountability Project Applauds Just-Released GAO Report on Management Abuses in 2020 at Voice of America Overseer, the U.S. Agency for Global Media Trump Political Leadership Repeatedly Breached Firewall Designed to Protect the Editorial Independence of Voice of America and Its Sibling Networks WASHINGTON— The editorial Independence of Voice [...]
Congress Urged to Revisit Editorial Firewall Protections of US-Funded Media NetworksThis article features Government Accountability Project’s Senior Counsel, David Seide, and was originally published here.A government report is recommending that Congress pass legislation to better define editorial firewalls at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA.The Government Accountability Office, which audits U.S. government [...]