Elon Musk

restores

Twitter accounts of journalists December 17, 2022

Elon Musk drew

criticism

after Twitter banned accounts of several prominent journalists who wrote about him.

The tech billionaire had cited changed

doxxing policies

for banning those journalists.

All those twitter accounts have now been

restored.

German foreign minister

had earlier threatened to leave Twitter after journalists’ accounts were banned.

Major news media organizations including,

New York Times

had issued a statement asking Twitter to explain why they banned their journalists’ accounts.

After a Twitter poll, Musk tweeted, “The

people have spoken.

Accounts who doxxed my location will have their suspension lifted now.”

Earlier, Elon Musk announced Twitter will count

mutes and blocks from verified

accounts as downvotes.