@RationalLeft It was all Musk's idea of a publicity stunt. Ban loads of journalists and you can bet they'll all write about it. Which they did. Cue more Musk column inches. He's a media whore. He probably can't even remember who he banned, much less why.
@Florence Perhaps. But all publicity is not in fact good publicity.
It's also entirely possible that he fully intended to ban anyone who criticized him but is now panicking about the looming European sanctions he never stopped to think about.