There is a goal for "general amnesty" towards banned accounts being set in motion. Thousands of banned users have regained access to their accounts since the owner took over. Some of the worst characters on the social network have returned to the site due to his laissez faire attitude.
How many accounts are back on the micro-messaging service? The screen names of banned accounts have been published on a public Github list. More than 12,000 accounts have been restored since October 27. There have been hundreds of account reinstatements since November 8. There were close to 2500 accounts allowed back.
These accounts may be the beginning of something bigger. According to a recent report by platformer, Musk is trying to restore 62,000 accounts with more than 10,000 followers.
Several of the once-suspended accounts include promoting vaccine misinformation that Musk doesn't have a lot of time for anymore, as well as obviousspam accounts, profiles that share copyrighted material, and adult content creators. There were a lot of accounts that had only recently been suspended and were probably about to end their timed bans. The accounts that had been restored are no longer allowed. Musk's ill-fated expansion of subscriptions on the social network included re-verified neo-Nazis.
NBC reported Friday on Brown's project, which identifies many far-right accounts that have been allowed back on. The accounts were connected to the conspiracy. Even though he once ran a group that advocated for a white ethnostate and used the slogan "you will not replace us" he is back on social media.
Andrew Anglin, a neo-Nazi who led a harassment campaign against Jews in Montana, is one of the subjects given a second chance. Anglin deleted his posts prior to his ban after he was allowed back on the platform.
Some left-wing activists have been suspended because of their association with the right-wing campaigns. The antifascist researcher was one of the people who had been suspended. Musk asked a right-wing figurehead to report what the alt-right writer considered to be "AntiFA" accounts.
A report from Media Matters for America mentioned the resurrection of anti-semetic profiles like E. Michael Jones, who has more than 30,000 followers. David has regained access to the platform, which he used to use to send right-wing talking points like the "ghettoisation" of England. These accounts are on top of some of the most public shrews that were once banned from the social networking site for violating its rules, the same rules that we should point out are still listed on the website.
We did not hear back from the company after we reached out, and we do not expect to hear from them again. Extremists on the right and left are upset.
Despite Musk's claims to the contrary, data shows that hate speech is growing much more prevalent on the platform since Musk's tenure began, though it remains unclear how much of that is due to these reinstated accounts and how much is just because racists and radicals.
Tracking Musk's moods is similar to tracking his moods on a daily basis. The self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist" has made exceptions, such as Thursday when he re-banned the account of the celebrated rapper after he posted swastikas on his profile and dared to post text messages with the billionaire. It had been less than a week since Musk welcomed Ye back to the platform.
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