Elton John quits Twitter blaming change in misinformation policy

Sir Elton John has go the latest personage to permission Twitter since its acquisition by Tesla brag Elon Musk.

In effect to Sir Elton's announcement, Mr Musk said helium hoped the prima would beryllium back.

In what could beryllium his past ever tweet, the Rocket Man vocalist wrote: "All my beingness I've tried to usage euphony to bring radical together. Yet it saddens maine to spot however misinformation is present being utilized to disagreement our world.

"I've decided to nary longer usage Twitter, fixed their caller alteration successful argumentation which volition let misinformation to flourish unchecked."

Twitter's arguable CEO, who began referring to himself arsenic the company's Chief Twit aft buying it, replied to the station saying: "I emotion your music. Hope you travel back. Is determination immoderate misinformation successful peculiar that you're acrophobic about?"

Since Mr Musk completed his $44bn (£38.1bn) Twitter takeover successful October, determination has been contention implicit the Covid argumentation roll-back, arsenic good arsenic different moves specified arsenic reinstating immoderate antecedently suspended accounts and charging users for their "blue tick".

A slew of celebrated faces have, successful the aftermath, signed retired of Twitter for good, citing its caller person arsenic their main crushed for leaving.

Actors Jim Carrey and Whoopi Goldberg, supermodel Gigi Hadid and White Stripes instrumentalist Jack White are among those to person discontinue the societal media website.

In Ms Hadid's announcement, she referred to Twitter nether Mr Musk arsenic a "cesspool of hatred and bigotry".

According to Twitter's website, it stopped taking enactment against tweets breaching its erstwhile coronavirus rules connected Wednesday 23 November.

It had antecedently reported suspending much than 11,000 accounts for misinformation astir the microorganism arsenic of September this year.

Under its Covid-specific policy, Twitter operated a "five-strike system" for accounts posting "demonstrably mendacious oregon misleading" contented that mightiness "lead to important hazard of harm" - specified arsenic vulnerability to Covid oregon harm to nationalist wellness systems.

No enactment would beryllium taken against accounts tweeting disinformation once. But repetition offenders could beryllium suspended for a substance of hours, days oregon adjacent indefinitely, if they received 5 strikes against their account.