Elon restored nearly 12,000 banned Twitter accounts: Data

December 05, 2022 By Prelo Con

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Twitter founder Elon Musk's goal of "general amnesty" for banned accounts is well underway. Since taking over, the multibillionaire owner has restored access to thousands of previously banned users. His laissez faire attitude has enticed some of Twitter's worst characters to return to the social network. How many previously suspended or banned accounts have returned to Twitter? Travis Brown, a software developer based in Germany, has been monitoring and publishing the unique Twitter IDs and screen names of blacklisted accounts on a publicly accessible Github list. Since Oct. 27, nearly 12,000 accounts have been reinstated on Brown's list. Every day since November 8, a number of hundred account reinstatements. Nearly 2,500 accounts were allowed back on November 21 alone. Elon Musk is attempting to reactivate approximately 62,000 accounts with over 10,000 followers. Accounts with obvious spam, profiles that share copyrighted material, and adult content producers are among those listed. There are also a number of accounts which were recently suspended and were probably nearing the end of their timed bans. [caption id="attachment_58180" align="aligncenter" width="1600"]

image credit: investorsking[/caption] Brown's project and a dataset that identifies various far-right accounts that have been reinstated were first reported by NBC on Friday. Some accounts have also been linked to the radical QAnon conspiracy. White nationalist Patrick Casey is back on Twitter, despite the fact that he once led Identity Europa, a major group that proposed for a white ethnostate and coined the famous slogan "you will not replace us." Some left-wing activists have reportedly been suspended after falling into the crosshairs of right-wing campaigns. According to The Intercept, antifascist researcher Chad Loder has been suspended. Loder cites a Twitter exchange in which Musk asked people to report "Antifa" accounts. According to data, hate speech is becoming more common on Twitter under Elon Musk. The self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist" has made room, such as re-banning Kanye West's account. It is unclear how much of this is due to the reinstatement of these accounts and how much is simply because racists and radicals feel more empowered.

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