Twitter Reinstates Suspended Accounts of Several Journalists

INA - SOURCES 

Elon Musk revealed that Twitter was reinstating the accounts of several journalists whose accounts were suspended after he had accused them of violating the social media platform’s rules on personal privacy.

Musk said he was restoring most of the accounts, which had been deactivated on Thursday, after a majority of respondents in his informal Twitter survey voted that the suspensions should be lifted immediately.

On Thursday evening, Twitter suspended the accounts of several high-profile journalists who had written about Musk’s ownership of the company, including Donie O’Sullivan of CNN, Ryan Mac of The New York Times and Drew Harwell of The Washington Post.

Some of the journalists had written about Musk’s earlier suspension of an account, @ElonJet, that tracked the whereabouts of his private plane using publicly available flight data.
In a heated Twitter audio session with journalists on Thursday, Musk seemed to equate linking to the @ElonJet account in those articles with publishing intrusive real-time location information, or “doxxing.” Some of the people whose accounts were suspended had also written articles critical of Mr. Musk’s stewardship of Twitter.

After the suspensions, Musk asked Twitter users when the accounts should be reinstated. Roughly 59 percent of the 3.7 million who voted said that the users should be reinstated immediately.