Twitter has suspended the accounts of a prominent Tesla and Elon Musk critic, PlainSite founder Aaron Greenspan

Twitter suspended the accounts of PlainSite and its laminitis Aaron Greenspan, a prolific Tesla and Elon Musk critic, connected Tuesday afternoon.

PlainSite is an online database that makes authorities and national tribunal filings and different nationalist records disposable to users for free. The tract besides offers analytics features to paying subscribers, meant to assistance lawyers and pro-se litigants summation insights astir attorneys, judges, authorities offices and the law.

Greenspan has meticulously tracked litigation by oregon against companies mostly successful the U.S., including Tesla, Twitter (which Musk took backstage successful an acquisition past year), arsenic good arsenic competitors GM, Meta and a myriad of others. He and Musk person besides been progressive successful litigation implicit the years.

At the clip PlainSite's relationship was suspended, it boasted much than 24,000 listed followers connected Twitter. Greenspan's idiosyncratic relationship had astir 2,500 followers.

The suspension stands astatine likelihood with nationalist statements from Twitter's enforcement president and CTO Elon Musk, and newly-appointed CEO Linda Yaccarino. Yaccarino was antecedently planetary advertizing main astatine NBCUniversal, the genitor institution of CNBC.

In April 2022, aft Musk announced his volition to get Twitter, helium wrote successful a tweet, "I anticipation that adjacent my worst critics stay connected Twitter, due to the fact that that is what escaped code means."

More recently, Yaccarino wrote successful a company-wide memo that a steadfast civilization needs an "unfiltered speech of accusation and unfastened dialog astir the things that substance astir to us." She besides said successful the memo, "You should person the state to talk your mind. We each should."

Greenspan told CNBC connected Thursday that helium has not yet received accusation from Twitter saying wherefore the institution suspended his accounts, though helium has requested a reinstatement of both.

He besides discussed immoderate of the reasons wherefore helium started the "legal transparency initiative" PlainSite, and however helium came to beryllium regarded arsenic an Elon Musk nemesis.

"I created PlainSite with 2 friends successful 2011, due to the fact that we were each wondering wherefore Occupy Wall Street didn't person the interaction we expected," helium reminisced. "No fiscal execs went to jailhouse for the 2008 fiscal situation though it truly was evident determination had been transgression wrongdoing somewhere. One reason, we thought, was that radical didn't recognize what the instrumentality said and what are the loopholes banks oregon execs were capable to exploit to get retired of being held accountable."

Over the years, Greenspan has shorted banal successful immoderate of the companies helium has researched and written astir connected PlainSite, disclosing those positions erstwhile helium held them. He is not abbreviated Tesla today, but helium has been successful the past, helium said.

PlainSite began its focused probe connected Tesla successful 2018 aft the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Musk and Tesla with civilian securities fraud.

The charges came aft Musk tweeted that helium was considering taking Tesla backstage astatine $420 per stock and had backing secured to bash so, causing a halt successful trading that day, and sending Tesla banal into a play of volatility for weeks.

Musk and Tesla settled the charges with the regulators, without admittance of guilt oregon the quality to assertion innocence.

Greenspan said, "I was not funny successful Tesla until the SEC took enactment against the institution and Elon that year. That got maine reasoning that it whitethorn beryllium over-valued, fixed the information it was moving into occupation with fiscal regulators." 

A assemblage connected Twitter, including abbreviated sellers and different taxable substance experts funny successful what Tesla was doing, became predominant PlainSite users and subscribers.

Court filings and nationalist records rendered easy searchable by PlainSite often revealed details astir Tesla's troubles and tactics. PlainSite records obtained done FOIA requests person been wide cited by property including CNBC, Reuters, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times and galore others.

Since 2018, Greenspan has made tribunal filings and different nationalist records disposable connected PlainSite that revealed:

In May 2020, Greenspan sued a Tesla promoter alleging harassment, and named Elon Musk arsenic a enactment contributing to that harassment successful the lawsuit.

In Feb. 2023, Musk sued Greenspan for publishing correspondence betwixt the 2 of them connected Twitter and PlainSite. The emails are still disposable connected PlainSite.

Twitter did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.