Musk reveals US demanded suspension of 250k Twitter accounts

Twitter chief Elon Musk on Tuesday disclosed that US Government demanded the suspension of 250k Twitter accounts including those belonging to journalists and Canadian officials reported Fox News He made the revelation while sharing the latest round of Twitter Files which were made public by the journalist Matt TaibbiUS govt agency demanded suspension of 250k accounts including journalists amp Canadian officials tweeted Musk The new release of internal Twitter correspondence details the relationship between the social media company and government agenciesTaibbi revealed the US governments mounting and endless pressure on Twitter to work handinhand with Congress to hunt for Russian meddling on the platform reported Fox News The Global Engagement Center described by Taibbi as a fledgling analyticintelligence arms of the State Department went public by releasing a report to media with a list of suspect accounts which it said were Russian personas and proxiesHowever Twitters subsequent task force to hunt Russian influence on the platform showed no coordinated effort and mostly lonewolf accounts with low ad spends reported Fox News These accounts were described based on criteria like Describing the coronavirus as an engineered bioweapon blaming research conducted at the Wuhan institute and attributing the appearance of the virus to the CIA according to TaibbiThe GEC report included a list of accounts that followed two or more Chinese diplomatic accounts and was 250000 names long Under US government pressure Twitter went on to suspend nearly 250000 accounts including accounts tied to journalists some questioning the pandemics origins and accounts that followed two or more Chinese diplomatic accounts reported Fox NewsAlso Read Elon Musk asks Twitter users to vote on whether he should stay as bossNotably an earlier batch of the Twitter Files showed former President Donald Trump was deplatformed after pressure from the social media companys employees Off lately there have been many changes on Twitter after Musk became the CEO of the microblogging site Recently he announced a change in the User Interface of the platforms Bookmarks featureMusk hinted that the upcoming changes would make it Easy to create folders to bookmark tweets into various categories Musk had earlier announced Significant backend server architecture changes on the platform The multibillionaire announced earlier on that the new Twitter Policy will not only follow science but also question science reasonablyNew Twitter policy is to follow the science which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science Musk tweeted Musk stated Anyone who says that criticizing them is doubting science itself cannot be regarded as a scientist in a followup tweet to his initial policy statementThis 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