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Twitter Reinstates Suspended Accounts of Several Journalists



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Elon Musk said early Saturday that Twitter was reinstating the accounts of several journalists whose accounts were suspended after he had accused them of violating the social media platform’s rules on personal privacy.Mr. Musk said he was restoring most of the accounts, which had been deactivated on Thursday, after a majority of respondents in his informal Twitter survey voted that the suspensions should be lifted immediately.On Thursday evening, Twitter suspended the accounts of several high-profile journalists who had written about Mr. Musk’s ownership of the company, including Donie O’Sullivan of CNN, Ryan Mac of The New York Times and Drew Harwell of The Washington Post.Some of the journalists had written about Mr. Musk’s earlier suspension of an account, @ElonJet, that tracked the whereabouts of his private plane using publicly available flight data.In a heated Twitter audio session with journalists on Thursday, Mr. Musk seemed to equa …

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