Twitter has canceled the blocking of the accounts of American journalists who wrote about the deletion of accounts with the geolocation of Elon Musk's plane and criticized the businessman. He announced this on his page on the social network.
Yesterday, December 16, the accounts of Ryan Mack from the New York Times, Drew Harwell from the Washington Post, independent journalists Aaron Rupar and Tony Webster, Doni O& #x27;CNN's Sullivan, Mashable's Matt Binder, The Intercept's Mickey Lee, and political journalist Keith Olbermann.
Musk then created two polls, asking followers to choose when Twitter should return access to blocked accounts that “doxed his exact location in real time.” Most users voted for the immediate removal of restrictions.
December 14, it became known about the massive blocking of pages that published data from the ADS-B Exchange website on aircraft movements. The next day, the administration of Twitter changed the rules of information policy and banned «sharing someone else's current location in most cases.»
As Musk explained, such tweets threaten people's physical safety. As evidence, he told how the car with his son in Los Angeles was “chased by a crazy stalker who later blocked the movement of the car and climbed onto the hood.”
The founder of Tesla and SpaceX closed the deal to buy Twitter for 44 billion dollars at the end of October. Since then, the social network has been accompanied by scandals due to updates that Elon Musk's team is testing.
Rules have changed. Twitter deleted the account with the geolocation of Elon Musk's plane, and at the same time the tracker of the flights of Russian billionaires