Twitter suspends user for mild insult of Pete Buttigieg: A twitter user reacted to the fact that Elon Musk and his company Tesla Motors Inc. was not invited to a White House gathering of Electric Vehicle manufacturers. When asked why Tesla was absent from the event Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation for the Biden Administration, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" "I'm not sure." The user reacted to Buttigieg's claim calling him a "lying loathsome skank." Twitter suspended the user for "Violating [Twitter's] rules against hateful conduct." The platform cited its policy saying that it prohibits tweets that "promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease." It is unclear how the policy specifically applies in this case or how long the suspension will last.