Elon Musk suspends comedian Kathy Griffin’s Twitter account permanently

Comedian Kathy Griffin becomes the latest Twitter casualty, as her account got suspended after Twitter CEO Elon Musk rolled out that handles engaged in ‘impersonation’ without clearly specifying “parody” will be suspended permanently.

Griffin had changed her profile name to Musk, following which she seems to have been promptly banned from the social media site, as per Fox news reports.

Despite her handle showing her own @kathygriffin name, the moniker by her blue checkmark. Elon Musk said this goes against the company policy against impersonation.

Sharing the tweet, Elon Musk wrote, “BREAKING: @kathygriffin has been permanently suspended from Twitter for impersonating.”