Musk lifts Twitter suspensions of journalists: ‘People have spoken’

December 16, 2022

Elon Musk has reinstated the Twitter accounts of a half dozen journalists who had been briefly suspended for showing how to track the location of the billionaire’s private jet.
The Twitter CEO lifted the ban to most of the users early Saturday based on the results of a 24-hour Twitter survey he posted Friday night where he asked if the accounts should be reinstated immediately or in seven days. More than 58% of voters urged him to unsuspend the journalists “now.”
“The people have spoken,” Musk tweeted at 12:18 a.m. Saturday. “Accounts who doxxed my location will have their suspension lifted now.”
New York Times reporter Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell and other journalist’s accounts were back up and running just after Musk made the announcement.
“I want to thank everyone for all the support and kind words over the past day and some change,” said independent journalist Aaron Rupar, one of those who had been suspended.
The people have spoken.
Accounts who doxxed my location will have their suspension lifted now. https://t.co/MFdXbEQFCe

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 17, 2022
“I was pretty bummed about getting suspended initially but quickly realized it’d be fine because I’m blessed to have an amazing online community. Seriously, I appreciate it a lot. Cheers,” Rupar said.
But political pundit Keith Olbermann’s account was still suspended early Saturday morning. It wasn’t immediately clear why.
Olbermann’s final Twitter post encouraged users to recreate Harwell’s tweet that resulted in his suspension, which shared information pertaining to the location of Musk’s private jet.
The journalists were suspended for about 28 hours after allegedly sharing Musk’s location, a violation of a new policy the Twitter CEO implemented Wednesday after he claimed a stalker followed and jumped on top of a car carrying his infant son.