The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, indicated on Friday evening, December 16, that he was going to restore the accounts of several American journalists on this social network after having caused an uproar by suspending them.
Elon Musk had launched a poll on Twitter to ask if he should restore the suspended accounts immediately or in a week. Nearly 59% of the 3.69 million Internet users who took part in the survey replied that he should restore them immediately. ” People have spoken. Accounts that had published my location will have their suspension lifted “, therefore tweeted the billionaire, who had been threatened this same Friday with sanctions by the European Union. The UN also denounced a dangerous precedent with this suspension.
A dozen suspended accounts
Unsuspend accounts who doxxed my exact location in real-time
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022
A dozen American journalists had been suspended from the social network. Among them, media workers like CNN (Donie O’Sullivan), the New York Times (Ryan Mac), the washington post (Drew Harwell) and independent journalists. Some of them had tweeted about Twitter’s decision on Wednesday to suspend the account that automatically reported Elon Musk’s private jet rides.
” mad stalker »
The latter had accused them of endangering his safety as well as that of his family. He said Wednesday in a tweet that a vehicle with one of his children on board had been followed in Los Angeles by ” a crazy stalker ”, seeming to create a causal link with the real-time positioning of his jet.
(With AFP)
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