<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk faced questions and backlash Friday in response to a new policy centered around policing mean tweets on the social media platform.</p>
<p>The news comes as Musk has faced pressure from advertisers, activists, and other entities to moderate content on the platform while he simultaneously has made drastic reductions in the company&#8217;s workforce.</p>
<p>&#8220;New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach,&#8221; Musk tweeted. &#8220;Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted &amp; demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Naval,&#8221; a highly popular Twitter account with nearly 2 million followers, responded to Musk&#8217;s tweet by writing: &#8220;Freedom of speech means Twitter not putting its thumb on the scale.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another popular Twitter account, &#8220;I,Hypocrite&#8221; responded, &#8220;What a disappointment this guy is.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The very concept of deboosting should not even exist because there shouldn&#8217;t be an algorithm on twitter,&#8221; I,Hypocrite tweeted. &#8220;Your timeline should just show the tweets that are posted in the order they are posted. Period. Don&#8217;t like it? Block/unfollow.&#8221;</p>
<p>https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1593707999574765569</p>
<p>Reporter Zack Budryk tweeted, &#8220;You paid this guy $8 to make shadowbanning real LMAO.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If I attack the supreme leader of Iran is that considered a &#8216;negative/hate&#8217; tweet?&#8221; journalist Yashar Ali tweeted. &#8220;How will the system tell the difference?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Meet the new boss, same as the old boss,&#8221; law professor Orin Kerr responded.</p>
<p>Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) tweeted, &#8220;Will it be transparent? Will it be according to a published policy? Will we know when it’s happening? If not, how is this any different from the old twitter?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Ok how is this any different than the previous policy?&#8221; conservative political commentator Allie Beth Stuckey tweeted. &#8220;People’s tweets suppressed because a biased rando at twitter thinks a tweet is mean or mad?&#8221;</p>
<p>Musk announced in a subsequent tweet that he was restoring the account belonging to DailyWire+ host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jordan-peterson-restored-to-twitter-by-elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jordan Peterson</a> and restoring the account belonging to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-elon-musk-restores-the-babylon-bees-twitter-account-let-that-sink-in" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Babylon Bee</a>.</p>
<p>Musk also reinstated the account of comedian Kathy Griffin, who was permanently banned after impersonating Musk from her Twitter account.</p>
<p>Musk said that a decision was forthcoming about whether to reinstate former President Donald Trump.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-purge-continues-hundreds-of-twitter-employees-resign-over-musks-extremely-hardcore-ultimatum-report-says">The Purge Continues: Hundreds Of Twitter Employees Resign Over Musk’s ‘Extremely Hardcore’ Ultimatum, Report Says</a></strong></p>

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