Elon Musk reinstates journalists who were suspended from Twitter after conducting a poll about how to handle accounts that 'doxxed' his location

Several journalists who had their accounts suspended a day before were already back on the platform after Musk's announcement.

Several prominent journalists were suspended from the platform without a clear explanation for their actions. On the same day, the company announced new privacy rules and suspended accounts run by college student Jack Sweeney.

The journalists' suspensions were related to the new policy, according to Musk.

Donie O' Sullivan of CNN, Drew Harwell of The Washington Post, and Ryan Mac of The New York Times were among the journalists banned.

Musk asked his followers when he should "Unsuspend accounts who doxed my exact location in real-time," with the options being "Now" or "In 7 days." More than half of the respondents voted "Now."

He said that the people had spoken. The accounts that didxx my location will have their suspension lifted now.

Accounts belonging to O' Sullivan, Rupar, Mac, Harwell, and Webster had been restored. Several of them had their accounts blocked and replaced with a note that said the account had violated the rules on the social networking site. Olbermann's account was no longer active.

After the suspension was lifted, Rupar thanked everyone for their support and kind words. I was pretty upset about being suspended but realized it would be fine because I have a great online community.

He didn't know why he had been banned and he didn't think he shared anything related to the jet tracking accounts. He said he criticized Musk the day before he got banned.

"I guess it was something critical I posted of Elon, that's why I'm suspended," he said. They're probably not going to come out and say that, so maybe that's why I didn't get any information from them.

If you aren't willing to admit that Musk lied to you about his 'free speech' goals, you are simply in denial at this point.

He wrote that he was correct. We were promised free speech, but this is not it. There was no 'doxing', even if an impulsive, accountable-to- nobody person said so.

Musk has claimed to use polls to make decisions in the past, but the polls are not reliable, according to employees of the company. The former head of trust and safety at the company said that polls are more prone to manipulation.

Insider did not get a response from the two companies.