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Elon Musk said on Thursday that Twitter will provide a "general amnesty " to suspended account s starting next week after running a poll on whether to do so for users who had not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam. In a poll Musk posted on Twitter on Wednesday, 72.4% of the more than 3.16 million users who took part voted in favor of bringing back those who had been suspended by the social media platform. "The people have spoken," Musk, who acquired Twitter last month, tweeted on Thursday. "Amnesty begins next week." Last week, Musk, the world's richest person, reinstated some previously suspended account s, including former US President Donald Trump, satirical website Babylon Bee and comedian Kathy Griffin. He tweeted in October that Twitter would form a content moderation council "with widely diverse viewpoints." Musk said no major content decisions or account reinstatements would happen before the c...

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 reinstatements came after the unprecedented suspensions evoked stinging criticism from government officials, advocacy groups and journalism organizations from several parts of the globe on Friday, with some saying the microblogging platform was jeopardizing press freedom. A Twitter pollthat Musk conducted later also showed that a majority of the respondents wanted the accounts restored immediately. "The people have spoken. Accounts who doxxed my location will have their suspension lifted now," Musk said in a tweet on Saturday. Twitter did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. A Reuters check showed the suspended accounts, which included journalists from the New York Times, CNN and the Washington Post, have been reinstated. Officials from France, Germany, Britain and the Eur...