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The United Nations is "very concerned" about the arbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter,

UN spokesman

Stephane Dujarric

said on Friday .

He has added that the voices of the media should not be silenced on a platform that claims to give space to freedom of expression.

"The move sets a dangerous precedent at a time when journalists around the world face censorship, physical threats and even worse," Dujarric told reporters.

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has asked this Friday that Twitter restore the accounts of journalists suspended

the day before, considering that "the arbitrariness of the large platforms" constitutes a "greater danger to democracy"

"We must put an end to the arbitrariness of the platforms and regain democratic control of them before they fully submit democracies to their whims and it is too late," Christophe Deloire, general secretary of RSF, an NGO, denounced in a statement. defense of press freedom founded in France in 1985.

A dozen American journalists have been suspended from the social network Twitter,

acquired in October by billionaire Elon Musk.

The group did not explain why they had been suspended or for how long.

Some journalists had tweeted about Twitter's decision to suspend the @ElonJet account, which automatically reported on Musk's private jet travel.

"Accounts involved in doxing receive a 7-day suspension,"

Musk tweeted Thursday night, noting that these rules apply "both to journalists and anyone else."

The term "doxing" means publicly disclosing personal information about an individual on the Internet without their consent.

"The censorship of journalists and the construction of new rules to satisfy the decisions of the boss (Elon Musk) are not the hallmarks of a healthy information space," RSF highlighted.

The vice president of the European Commission, Vera Jourova, has described the tycoon's decision as "worrying",

recalled in a tweet that there are "red lines" and has threatened the company "with sanctions, soon".

"Freedom of the press must not be turned on and off at will," Germany's Foreign Relations portfolio tweeted.

"That's why we have a problem with Twitter," she added.

The French Minister for the Digital Transition, Jean-Noël Barrot, said on the same social network that he was "distressed by the drift into which Elon Musk is precipitating Twitter": "Freedom of the press is at the very foundation of democracy , is an attack against the other".

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