Twitter is reinstating the accounts of several journalists who were suspended this week, according to a Saturday morning tweet from Elon Musk.
The new chief executive and owner of Twitter said he would lift the suspensions based on the results of a Twitter survey that asked users whether he should keep the accounts offline for a week or reinstate them immediately. More than 58% of respondents said the ban should be lifted right away. Musk
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has previously attributed decisions he has taken to polls he serves up to his followers on Twitter, though it has been unclear to what extent they have influenced his decisions.
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“Accounts who doxxed my location will have their suspension lifted now,” Musk said on Twitter. Musk has previously complained about an account tracking his private jet using public data.
The social-media company Musk bought in October also conducted another round of layoffs Friday, according to a copy of an email that notified affected employees and was seen by The Wall Street Journal. Some laid-off engineers tweeted that their jobs had been cut. The full scope of the layoffs couldn’t immediately be determined.
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An expanded version of this report appears on WSJ.com.
