Who Is Keith Olbermann? Why Was He Suspended From Twitter?

On Thursday night, Twitter suspended a number of prominent journalists and commentators without any prior warning and without providing any clear sign as to the reason for the suspensions. Keith Olbermann, an ESPN host, was one of them. Even Olbermann’s account was taken down; his last tweet, which was captured by other users, showed him supporting Rupar and other reporters.

Donie O’Sullivan, a reporter for CNN, was one of the people who got suspended. On Thursday, Ryan Mac of the New York Times, Drew Harwell of the Washington Post, Matt Binder of Mashable, and Aaron Rupar, a freelance journalist, were also suspended.

In this article, we’ll look into what we know about his suspension and career thus far.

Why Keith Olbermann Suspended From Twitter?

Even though the reasons for the suspensions are unclear, The Washington Post claims that several of the journalists had been critical of Musk on Twitter and had reported about Musk suspending the account on Wednesday that tracks the movements of his private jet. A few of the journalists had tweeted a link to the tracking account on Twitter’s rival Mastodon Social.

In response to a tweet that was critical of the suspensions, Musk wrote, “It’s fine to criticize me all day long, but it’s not fine to doxx my real-time location and put my family in danger.” It was said that the accounts had been “permanently suspended,” but Musk said that they’d only be locked for a week.

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As soon as the suspensions were made public, “Thursday Night Massacre” became a popular topic to talk about. Musk has not talked about the move on his own Twitter account. Elon Musk’s jet account was active on Twitter until he changed the terms of service previously this week to ban those accounts that share real-time location data about private people.

Alex Heath, an editor at The Verge, has said Twitter’s head of trust and safety told him that the suspensions were related to the new policy. Musk tweeted Thursday in reply to a tweet about the suspensions, “The same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’ as to everyone else.”

Know About Keith Olbermann

Keith Theodore Olbermann is an American sport and political commentator. Olbermann spent the first 20 years of his career as a sports journalist. In the 1980s, he was a sports reporter for CNN and for local TV and radio stations. He won the Best Sportscaster award from the California Associated Press three times. He was a co-host on ESPN’s SportsCenter from 1992 to 1997. From 1998 to 2001, he was a producer and anchor for Fox Sports Net, and he also hosted Fox Sports’ coverage of Major League Baseball.

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From March 2003 to January 2011, Olbermann hosted the MSNBC show Countdown with Keith Olbermann on weeknights. He received a lot of media attention for his pointed criticism of right-wing and conservative public officials and figures. 

Olbermann relaunched Countdown with Keith Olbermann as a daily podcast on iHeartRadio on August 1, 2022. It is said to be a news-based show with his tag “Special Comment” political analysis, “The Worst Persons in the World” segment, and readings from the humorist James Thurber’s works.