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Musk announces 'amnesty' for suspended Twitter accounts
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A month after he bought Twitter for $44 billion, Elon Musk said Thursday that he is granting "amnesty" for suspended accounts, which online safety experts predict will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation.
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Just days after he reinstated former President Donald Trump, Musk is asking Twitter users whether there should be a "general amnesty" for all suspended accounts that haven't broken the law or engaged in "egregious spam."
New Twitter owner Elon Musk says he is granting “amnesty” for suspended accounts, which online safety experts predict will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation. The billionaire’s
New Twitter owner Elon Musk on Wednesday polled users on whether the site should offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, using the same method he used to handle the case of Donald Trump.
Twitter owner Elon Musk announced Thursday that an “amnesty” for most banned accounts would start next week, following a poll posted Wednesday afternoon.
Musk says suspended Twitter accounts will be granted amnesty next week after holding a poll in which nearly three-fourths of users voted in the affirmative.
Just days after he reinstated former President Donald Trump, Musk said he would grant "amnesty" for suspended accounts that haven't broken the law or engaged in "egregious spam."
Elon Musk has already reinstated Donald Trump and other suspended accounts. The EU, meanwhile, has expressed concerns about Twitter's capacity to moderate illegal content.
Experts say move will spur rise in harassment, hatred, misinformation; billionaire says platform to return accounts that haven't 'broken the law or engaged in egregious spam'
A month after he bought Twitter for $44 billion, Elon Musk said Thursday that he is granting "amnesty" for suspended accounts, which online safety experts predict will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation.
Twitter owner Elon Musk claimed this week that he plans to grant "amnesty" for blacklisted accounts on the platform. Musk says the amnesty will be for users that had not "broken the law or engaged in egregious spam," which may mean that many conservatives unfairly banned will be restored to the plat…
A former Ku Klux Klan leader, a disgraced pharmaceutical executive, a prominent pillow salesman, a former pro baseball player, an outspoken rapper and a host of election conspiracists could all return to Twitter under Musk’s decision to restore banned accounts.
