The billionaire executive took the action in response to a poll he conducted on Twitter. Such online polls are anything but scientific and can easily be influenced by bots.
New Twitter owner Elon Musk says that he is granting “amnesty” for suspended accounts, which online safety experts predict will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation.
In the month since Musk took over, groups that monitor the platform for racist, anti-Semitic and other toxic speech say it’s been on the rise on the world’s de facto public square. That has included a surge in racist abuse of World Cup soccer players that Twitter is allegedly failing to act on.
A day earlier, Twitter reinstated the personal account of far-right Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, which was banned in January for violating the platform’s COVID misinformation policies.
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