Leaders of major civil rights groups are denying accusations made by Elon Musk, who said they broke an agreement with him by encouraging companies to halt advertising on Twitter.Musk tweeted on Tuesday that “a large coalition of political/social activist groups agreed not to try to kill Twitter by starving us of advertising revenue if I agreed to this condition. They broke the deal.”Musk didn’t elaborate on the agreement. He was responding to one of his followers, who accused Twitter’s new owner of lying when he promised in October that he would form a content moderation council and that “no major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.”Over the weekend, after running an informal poll on Twitter, Musk and the platform reinstated the account of former President Donald Trump, who was permanently expelled under previous management after the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.Twitter leadership in 2021 feared Trump’s presence and ongoing use of the site could lead to further violence as he continued to falsely claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him.Earlier this month, multiple civil rights grou …
