Elon Musk says Twitter will offer 'amnesty' to suspended accounts

Elon Musk says Twitter volition supply a "general amnesty" to immoderate suspended accounts from adjacent week.

This came aft helium started a canvass connected Wednesday asking Twitter users whether accounts that had "not breached the instrumentality oregon engaged successful egregious spam" should beryllium fto backmost connected the societal media platform.

Several accounts, specified arsenic that of erstwhile US President Donald Trump, person already been reinstated by Mr Musk.

The world's richest antheral bought Twitter for $44bn (£36.3bn) past month.

More than 3.1m Twitter users responded to Mr Musk's poll, with 72.4% of them voting "Yes".

"The radical person spoken. Amnesty begins adjacent week," Mr Musk, who has 118.7m followers connected the platform, aboriginal tweeted.

He besides utilized a Latin operation which translates to "the dependable of the radical is the dependable of God".

Mr Musk did not springiness details connected however the amnesty process would beryllium carried out.

But the erstwhile US president whitethorn not instrumentality to the platform, arsenic helium said "I don't spot immoderate crushed for it".

He has announced plans to tally again for the US presidency successful 2024.

His Twitter relationship was suspended successful 2021 connected grounds that it risked inciting violence, aft Trump supporters had stormed the US Capitol.

Mr Musk has besides reactivated the Twitter accounts of rapper Ye (formerly Kanye West) and influencer Andrew Tate.

Infowars big Jones has been forced to wage $1.44bn successful damages aft falsely and repeatedly claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook schoolhouse shooting successful the US, successful which 20 children and six adults were killed, was a hoax.

Mr Musk wrote that his ain kid had died, and that helium "had nary mercy" for anyone who "would usage the deaths of children for gain, authorities oregon fame".

Previously helium said nary determination astir banned accounts would beryllium made until a moderation committee had been appointed.

Mr Musk completed his $44bn acquisition of Twitter connected 28 October aft months of wrangling.

He has since laid disconnected fractional of the firm's 7,500-strong workforce, and hundreds much unit are believed to person left, pursuing an email saying that agelong hours and "hardcore" enactment would beryllium required of those who remained.