Twitter Suspends Prominent Legal Newspaper's Account -- For No Reason
The New York Law Journal has been suspended from Twitter for almost a week without any justification.
The New York Law Journal, an ALM property, has been publishing daily coverage of important news about the legal profession in the Empire State for more than 130 years. The paper has been tweeting its coverage since July 2011, but all of that came to a grinding halt sometime Friday when Twitter decided it was time to give the NYLJ the boot.
Jay Kirsh, president of Media for ALM, was pretty confused about the situation:
(@associatesmind is better known as Keith Lee, one of our former columnists.)
If you try to access the @NYLawJournal’s account on Twitter, this is what you’ll see:
Twitter: where neo-Nazis are welcome, but law journals are persona non grata.
At this point, the New York Law Journal has been suspended from Twitter for almost a week without any justification. In the era of so-called fake news, with real legal news being constantly churned out from one of the most active jurisdictions in the country, it’s critical that the New York Law Journal’s account be reinstated.
Do the right thing, Twitter, and do it now. This is absurd.
UPDATE (3:20 p.m.): The New York Law Journal’s account has been restored.
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.
