Elon Musk reinstates suspended Twitter accounts of journalists after backlash

Elon Musk on Saturday lifted the suspension of the Twitter accounts of a slew of journalists that he had banned earlier following the results of a poll he conducted among Twitter usersThe people have spoken Accounts who doxxed my location will have their suspension lifted now the Twitter owner tweetedAccording to Fox News a USbased news outlet Musk polled users for 24 hours to choose whether the accounts should be restored immediately or in 7 days In a 5941 point split Twitter users largely chose now The survey received responses from about 37 million Twitter usersIn a different poll Musk conducted on Thursday now also outperformed tomorrow in 7 days and longer but Musk said the poll featured too many optionsFamous legacy media journalists including CNN correspondent Donie OSullivan New York Times technology reporter Ryan Mac and Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell were abruptly informed that they were permanently suspended during what has come to be known as the Thursday Night MassacreJournalists Micah Lee of The Intercept Steve Herman of Voice of America Matt Binder of Mashable Keith Olbermann of exMSNBC and Aaron Rupar of exVox were also impactedAlso Read AntiLGBTQIA slurs have increased on Twitter after Elon Musks takeover ReportThe controversy began when ElonJet an account that only tracked Musks use of private aircraft was suspended Because the account was doxxing realtime location info and posting video of a crazy stalker who was harassing his child in Los Angeles while believing the Twitter owner was present Musk claimed the account was suspended for a physical safety violation and was consequently suspended Musk threatened to sue the person who used the accountOn Wednesday Musk warned Twitter users Any account doxxing realtime location info of anyone will be suspended as it is a physical safety violation This includes posting links to sites with realtime location infoThe users who were banned from Twitter on Thursday either shared links to the private aircraft monitoring on their own Twitter accounts or had reported on ElonJets suspensionAccording to Fox News many criticised the premise of Musks doxxing accusations because his use of a private jet is public knowledge while others accused him of hypocrisy because the billionaire had referred to himself as a free speech absolutist during his acquisition of TwitterStatements from CNN The New York Times and The Washington Post all criticised the impulsive and unreasonable action and demanded that their correspondents be allowed back on TwitterMany backed Musk by claiming that the journalists had violated the rules Others rejoiced in the suspensions claiming that individuals who received punishment championed censorship and kept quiet when Twitter retaliated against others before Musk such as the New York Post during the 2020 presidential election for its reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop scandalThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever