“The people have spoken. The accounts that revealed my location will now see the suspension lifted,” said the tycoon after the commotion caused
The Twitter accounts of several journalistssuspended after being accused by Elon Musk of endangering his family, were reinstated on Saturday, but some said they were had ordered the posts deleted related to the geographic location of the billionaire if they wanted to make full use of the platform.
Elon Musk had provoked the ire of the European Union and the United Nations by suspending the accounts of journalists from the CNN, el New York Times y el Washington Post in particular, and the vice president of the European Commission even threatened him with sanctions.
It then launched a poll on Twitter asking whether it should reinstate suspended accounts immediately or within a week. almost the 59% of the 3.69 million people who participated in the survey said you should reset them immediately.
“The people have spoken. The suspensions of the accounts that published my location will be lifted,” the businessman tweeted late on Friday.
This Saturday, the accounts of freelance journalist Aaron Rupar, Mashable reporter Matt Binder and freelance journalist Tony Webster had been reactivated.
Others remained suspended, like Business Insider’s Linette Lpez and Keith Olbermann, former MSNBC host turned editorial writer.
CNN journalist Donie O’Sullivan, who works extensively on Elon Musk, said that although his account was made visible again on Saturday, Twitter had imposed on him. a condition for him to tweet again: to remove a post that the network considers to be in violation of its privacy policy.
“At this point, I either agree to delete this tweet at the billionaire’s request, or I won’t be allowed to tweet on the platform,” he told CNN.
This latest controversy starring Elon Musk began on Wednesday, when the head of Tesla and SpaceX announcement suspending @elonjet, an account that automatically reported his private jet travel. Some accounts then tweeted about the decision.
Elon Musk justified the suspension of the accounts by saying that endanger your safety and that of your family.
On Wednesday he had claimed in a tweet that a vehicle with one of his sons inside had been followed in Los Angeles by “a crazy stalker”, appearing to create a causal link to the real-time positioning of his jet.
“They posted my exact geographic location in real time, which is literally the coordinates for a murderin direct (and obvious) violation of Twitter’s terms of service,” he also stated.
Twitter did not specify why these accounts had been suspended. The owner of the social network, which has been the source of much controversy since he bought it in October, did give some indication.
On Friday, in a live audio chat on Twitter, he stated that “everyone gets the same treatment” and that there will be no special treatment for journalists. When asked about it, Musk left the debate and deactivated the Twitter Spaces audio chat service, citing a “technical problem.”
In a tweet posted Thursday night, Musk announced a temporary suspension of seven days for “accounts involved in doxxing.”
The term “doxxing” means publicly disclosing information information about a person on the Internet without their consent.
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