Eight journalists have their accounts back after they were locked in what has been dubbed the Thursday Night massacre. Tech journalists who had been critical of Musk had their accounts suspended.
He retroactively explained the suspensions as having been enforcement of the new rule after he orchestrated sweeping changes to the site's doxxing policy. Musk does not need a reason to suspend accounts that he does not like.
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As of Saturday morning, there were journalists who had been let go.
Mastodon's account is back, too.
As of this writing on Saturday morning, the accounts belonging to Matt Binder, as well as some of the others, include a place for a message with the text "This Tweet violated theTwitter Rules" in it. "They didn't ask me to remove anything, so it's not clear what the rule violation was," said Matt Binder.
The responses to Musk's polls were overwhelmingly in favor of reinstating the accounts as quickly as possible. One of Musk's new slogans is "The people have spoken".
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Olbermann may have earned more disapprobation from Musk by using a secondary account. Olbermann is still suspended.
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Linette Lopez' account is still suspended, even though she was not part of the initial suspension.
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