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Elon Musk guarantees to revive suspended journalist Twitter accounts after poll

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Twitter chief Elon Musk said on Saturday he would reinstate the accounts of several journalists suspended from the platform. He had accused them of sharing private information of his whereabouts.

“The people have spoken. Accounts who doxxed my location may have their suspension lifted now,” Mr Musk tweeted after a majority of individuals on the platform responding to his survey voted to have the journalists’ accounts reinstated.

On Thursday, the accounts of several journalists who covered Twitter and Mr Musk were suspended in what gave the look of an arbitrary move by the corporate’s recent boss.

The suspended accounts included those of reporters with The Latest York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and other publications.

Mr Musk accused these journalists of sharing private details about his movements that he described as “principally assassination coordinates”, while providing no evidence for his claim.

“You dox, you get suspended. End of story. That’s it,” he said on a Twitter Space discussion on Thursday.

The series of suspensions began after Twitter banned the account “ElonJet”, an account run by 20-year-old Florida college student Jack Sweeney, that tracked the Tesla and SpaceX chief’s private jets using publicly available data.

“Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will probably be suspended, because it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info,” he said.

The accounts of several journalists covering Twitter and Mr Musk were also suspended. When questioned in regards to the abrupt ban, he said: “Same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’ as to everyone else.”

Several groups internationally expressed concerns over the suspensions. Vera Jourova, vice chairman for Values and Transparency on the European Union (EU) said news in regards to the suspension of journalists on Twitter was “worrying”.

“Existing EU media rules and recent digital regulations taking effect next 12 months require ‘respect of media freedom and fundamental rights’, Elon Musk should pay attention to that. There are red lines. And sanctions, soon,” Ms Jourova said.

Germany’s Foreign Ministry said it had “an issue” with not having the ability to follow the suspended accounts, adding that “press freedom must not be switched on and off at will”.

Then in a poll on Twitter, Mr Musk asked when he should unsuspend accounts that doxxed his location, adding that criticising him was OK but “doxxing” his real-time location and “endangering” his family was not.

After results of the poll revealed that a majority of the respondents wanted him to reinstate the accounts, he said on Saturday that the suspended accounts will probably be reinstated.

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