Owner Musk said the banned journalists had ‘doxxed’ him by tracking his private jet, but the move elicited stinging criticism from government officials and advocacy groups
Elon Musk reinstated the Twitter accounts of several journalists that were suspended for a day over a controversy on publishing public data about the billionaire’s plane.
“The people have spoken. Accounts who doxxed my location will have their suspension lifted now,” Musk said in a tweet on Saturday. Roland Lescure, the French minister of industry, tweeted on Friday that after Musk’s suspension of journalists, he would suspend his own activity on Twitter. Shortly after, Twitter changed its privacy policy to prohibit the sharing of “live location information”.
“I understand that the focus seems to be mainly on journalist accounts, but we applied the policy equally to journalists and non-journalist accounts today,” Irwin said in the email. The billionaire appeared briefly in a Twitter Spaces audio chat hosted by journalists, which quickly turned into a contentious discussion about whether the suspended reporters had actually exposed Musk’s real-time location in violation of the policy.
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