Among those accounts users hoped will come back online are Donald Trump, Meghan Murphy, Savanah Hernandez, Project Veritas, James O'Keefe, and Babylon Bee. Many others were banned for saying things like 'learn to code.' Those who loved the policies that silenced their ideological opponents freaked out. Musk promised that lifetime bans would be reversed. It was after the Bee's very public, and controversial ban that Musk bought enough Twitter shares to become a majority owner, and shortly afterward, Musk made his $44 billion proposal to buy the entire platform.Īfter Elon Musk bought Twitter, many users hoped that previously banned accounts would be reinstated. “The account owner is required to delete the violative Tweet before regaining access to their account.It could easily be said that the Bee's ban led directly to Elon Musk's plan to buy Twitter. account you referenced as been temporarily blocked for violating our hateful conduct policy,” a Twitter spokesperson said. Twitter cited its policy on “hateful conduct,” which states: “You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.” Bee CEO Seth Dillon has refused Twitter’s demand to delete the original post about Levine. tweeted news of the suspension from his own account, attaching a screenshot of the notice from Twitter. “Come on! Men in India wear dress-type garments, don’t they?” Twitter has suspended the account of right-leaning satirical news site The Babylon Bee after it named Rachel Levine, a Biden administration official, as its “man of the year.” AP Twitter suspended the account after it said the Bee violated its “hateful conduct” policy. “He often wears a dress, which some people think is weird - but he doesn’t care one bit,” the article continues. He is also an admiral in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. The banned article notes that Levine “serves proudly as the first man in that position to dress like a western cultural stereotype of a woman. If the cost of telling the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it.” “We’re not deleting anything,” Dillon tweeted from his personal account. Twitter says it will restore the account, which has more than 1.3 million followers, if the Bee deletes the tweet, but CEO Seth Dillon says he has no intention of doing so. The Babylon Bee story was a reaction to USA Today’s naming of Levine, who is US assistant secretary for health for the US Department of Health and Human Services, as one of its “women of the year” last week. Twitter locked the account of a right-leaning parody site, The Babylon Bee, after it awarded Rachel Levine, the transgender Biden administration official, the title of “man of the year.” Twitter CEO taps NBCUniversal executive as ad revenue reportedly drops 59% Groom caught texting while walking down aisle at wedding: ‘Get an annulment’ Kamala Harris Twitter parody racks up follows after mock AOC profile deleted after he was booted for anti-vax comments Instagram lifts ban on presidential candidate RFK Jr.

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