The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights welcomed the decision by the owner of Twitter to reactivate the suspended accounts of several journalists, but stressed that “serious concerns remain” about the social network.
High Commissioner Volker Turk urged Elon Musk, the current owner of Twitter, to “commit to making decisions based on policies that are accessible to the public and that respect rights, including freedom of expression.”
Elon Musk announced this Saturday, on Twitter, that he will welcome several American journalists back to the social network, after a wave of criticism after the suspension of their accounts.
On Thursday, Twitter suspended the accounts of several journalists from outlets including CNN (Donie O’Sullivan), The New York Times (Ryan Mac) and The Washington Post (Drew Harwell), as well as freelancers.
Some of the targeted journalists had written about Twitter’s decision to suspend an account that followed Elon Musk’s private jet travel.
The owner of Twitter published a series of messages indicating that accounts involved in disclosing an individual’s personal information on the internet without their consent “receive a temporary seven-day suspension” and indicated that the rules apply to journalists, “as to everyone else”. “
When he took to Twitter in October, Elon Musk promised to keep the @ElonJet account, which has 500,000 followers and was created by a student to automatically follow the movements of the millionaire’s private plane.
Since he bought Twitter for 44,000 million dollars (41,500 million euros), Musk has sent mixed messages about what is authorized and what is not in the social network.
On Friday, the European Union recalled that there are “red lines” and threatened Musk with “sanctions soon”, while the United Nations denounced “a dangerous precedent”.
Source: TSF
