Elon Musk issues a "general pardon" for the suspended accounts of journalists on Twitter
Late Friday evening, the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, announced that he would restart the accounts of a number of American journalists who had been suspended on this social network, which caused great discontent.
According to “AFP”, the billionaire wrote in a tweet, “People have spoken.
Accounts that posted my whereabouts will be suspended.”
The European Union had threatened to impose sanctions on Musk, while the United Nations considered his decision to suspend the accounts a "dangerous precedent."
Musk launched a Twitter poll asking if he should restart suspended accounts immediately or within a week.
About 59 percent of the 3.69 million Internet users who participated in the survey answered that it should be restarted immediately.
The accounts of about a dozen American journalists on the network were suspended.
Among them are employees of media outlets such as "CNN" (Donnie O'Sullivan), "The New York Times" (Ryan Mack), "The Washington Post" (Drew Harwell), and freelance journalists.
And some tweeted about the decision taken by “Twitter” on Wednesday to suspend the account that was automatically transmitting the flight path of Elon Musk’s private plane.
The latter accused them of endangering his safety and that of his family.
On Wednesday, he said in a tweet that a car carrying one of his children had been tracked in Los Angeles by a "crazy stalker," in what appeared to be a causal relationship with the account routing his private jet.
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