The issue is not whether they liked him. You stated that it was false that Elon suspended accounts based on refence to him.
Now you are sayng he did ban them.
https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/twitter-suspends-reporters-elon-musk-times-post-elonjet.html
"It’s not clear exactly how the reporters in question had violated this newly declared policy. None appeared to have posted any actual data about Musk’s plane, but some had written that @elonjet’s page on the competing social media site Mastodon still exists. (Writer
Christopher Hooks later observed that Twitter appears to have prohibited all links to Mastodon on the grounds that they are “potentially harmful.”)"
Some of the accounts banned.
"The suspended journalist accounts
include those of the Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, the New York Times’ Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, Substack’s Aaron Rupar, and Voice of America’s Steve Herman."
Harwell, whose most recent stories covered
the ban of @ElonJet and
the rise of baseless claims on Twitter, discovered he was unable to log into his account or tweet around 7:30 p.m. Thursday.