Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, said late Friday evening that he would restore the accounts of several American journalists on this social network.
“People have spoken.
The accounts that had published my location will have their suspension lifted, ”tweeted the billionaire, who had been threatened with sanctions by the European Union on Friday.
Elon Musk had launched a poll on Twitter to ask if he should restore suspended accounts immediately or in a week.
Nearly 59% of the 3.69 million Internet users who took part in the survey replied that it should restore them immediately.
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A dozen American journalists have been suspended from the social network.
Among them are media workers like CNN (Donie O'Sullivan), the New York Times (Ryan Mac), the Washington Post (Drew Harwell) and independent journalists.
“A dangerous precedent”
Some had tweeted about Twitter's decision on Wednesday to suspend the account that automatically reported Elon Musk's private jet rides.
The latter accused them of endangering his safety and that of his family.
He claimed in a tweet on Wednesday that a vehicle with one of his children on board was tracked in Los Angeles by "a crazed stalker", appearing to create a causal link to the real-time positioning of his jet.
The UN had denounced "a dangerous precedent" with this suspension.
The organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called for the accounts of the journalists concerned to be restored, considering that "the arbitrariness of the major platforms" represented a "major danger for democracy".
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After the tracked vehicle incident, in which his son was, Elon Musk announced in this tweet that he was going to sue the person behind the now suspended @ElonJet account.
Created by a student and followed by around 500,000 people, @ElonJet used public data to automatically indicate when and where the SpaceX and Tesla boss's device took off and landed.
Twitter subsequently communicated to announce that its policy now prohibited most tweets that showed someone's location in real time.
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