--- title: "Elon Musk claims that Twitter will provide suspended accounts a \"general amnesty.\"" description: "More than 3.16 million people, or more than 72.4%, participated in Elon Musk's survey and voted in favour of a broad amnesty for users." author: "Muskan Singh" published: 2022-11-25 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/news/2432/elon-musk-claims-that-twitter-will-provide-suspended-accounts-a-general-amnesty category: "twitter" tags: ["twitter api", "twitter", "technology", "technology news"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # Elon Musk claims that Twitter will provide suspended accounts a "general amnesty." - Users were prompted to vote in Elon Musk's poll about a “universal amnesty.” - Users overwhelmingly chose to restore suspended accounts. - The US FTC is investigating Twitter about employee terminations and resignations. Following a survey on whether to do so for users who had not breached the law or engaged in severe spam, Elon Musk announced on Thursday that [**Twitter**](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2409/weeks-after-significant-layoffs-elon-musk-tells-twitter-staff-that-he-is-prepared-to-hire-again) will start offering a 'general amnesty' to suspended accounts. **72.4 percent of the more than 3.16 million participants in a poll Musk held on Twitter on Wednesday voted in favour** of allowing those who had been suspended by the social [media platform](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156104/what-are-the-social-media-platform-used-for-seo) to return. The people have spoken, tweeted Musk on Thursday, who bought Twitter a month ago. 'Amnesty starts the next week.' The richest [man in the world](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32320/list-the-top-5-most-handsome-man-in-the-world), Elon Musk, reinstated a few previously suspended accounts last week, including that of comedian Kathy Griffin, mocking website Babylon Bee, and former US [President Donald](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81357/us-president-donald-trump-targets-china-yet-again) Trump. **He tweeted in October that a committee 'with significantly divergent perspectives' would be formed by Twitter for content monitoring. According to Musk**, no important content choices or account reinstatements have been made prior to the council's meeting. Change and ambiguity have characterised Twitter's first few weeks under the billionaire's ownership. He has fired key [management](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23490/tips-for-better-cash-flow-management), including former CEO Parag Agarwal, and senior officials in charge of security and privacy have resigned. **Due to their resignations, the US Federal Trade Commission, whose duty includes [consumer protection](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/38063/consumer-protection-act-1986-was-amended-in), declared that it was closely watching Twitter.** Earlier this week, Reuters reported that a group of [human rights](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39221/kunhiraman-panoor-the-renowned-author-and-human-rights-activist-has-passed-away-he-hailed-from-which-state) advocates was pressuring [**Twitter's**](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2412/companies-use-management-disdain-of-elon-musk-to-win-over-ex-twitter-staff) sponsors to make public announcements about removing their advertisements from the site after its founder Elon Musk relaxed the restriction on tweets from the late US President [Donald Trump](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81329/why-donald-trump-wants-india-to-join-g-7). **Donald Trump declared last week that he had no interest in returning to Twitter, despite a narrow majority of voters in a poll** conducted by the new owner Elon Musk favouring his reinstatement after the former US President was banned from the [social media](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13056/how-to-leverage-social-media-to-attract-lots-of-blog-traffic) platform for encouraging violence. --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/news/2432/elon-musk-claims-that-twitter-will-provide-suspended-accounts-a-general-amnesty Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.