Twitter CEO Elon Musk has lifted the suspensions imposed on several journalists’ accounts on the platform earlier this week after participants in a poll he posted called for the accounts to be restored immediately.
“The people have spoken. Accounts who doxxed my location will have their suspension lifted now,” Musk tweeted early Saturday morning.
The results of the poll showed about 59 percent of users who voted favored lifting the suspensions “now,” while about 41 percent said they should be lifted in seven days.
Most of the suspended accounts had been unlocked as of Saturday morning, but accounts for Keith Olbermann and Insider’s Linette Lopez were still suspended.
The lifting of the suspensions came after Musk received widespread backlash from commentators on both sides of the political aisle, some politicians and journalists over the accounts being blocked.
Musk has emphasized that he aims to protect “free speech” on the platform, but some critics slammed him for hypocrisy after the journalists were suspended.
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Musk lifts suspensions of journalists’ Twitter accounts after poll https://t.co/ZlCyFBJ1tV pic.twitter.com/nj7oWI3ln1
— The Hill (@thehill) December 17, 2022
Honestly I expected @elonmusk’s attempts to censor the accounts of haters to be more clever and less obvious/petty/pathetic
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) December 16, 2022
Well that was an expensive hissy fit: in addition to damage to this site, Tesla is worth $25 billion less now than it was worth 24 hours ago.
— Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) December 16, 2022
This is the thing I find weirdly humorous about this whole situation. https://t.co/LJNl1DDXb7
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 17, 2022
Vox populi, something something https://t.co/Lu8ZxwIlfJ
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 17, 2022
Dear Media, when the CEO of a public traded company starts using his other publicly traded company to shut down reporters’ work on company #1, the answer is to dig deeper into what’s going on, not silence your journalists. https://t.co/Qb5sbRzhF7
— Reed Galen (@reedgalen) December 16, 2022
2. One of the reporters (still) suspended wrote nothing about his flight data. They simply have covered Musk critically. pic.twitter.com/kGktEgZKay
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) December 17, 2022
Does Musk run his other businesses like Tesla via polls? If so, no wonder they are going down the tubes.
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