Human Rights Advocates Are Fighting Elon Musk’s ‘Amnesty’ Plan for Suspended Twitter Users

Elon Musk’s plan to offer ‘amnesty’ to suspended Twitter users puts human rights in jeopardy across the globe, advocacy experts say.

Musk’s announcement that he will grant a “general amnesty” to banned Twitter accounts starting this week comes roughly a month after he took over day-to-day management of Twitter and laid off nearly half of its workforce—including the entirety of the human rights team and an untold number of outsourced content moderators who tracked hate and harmful posts on the site. Key security, privacy, and trust and safety executives have also left the company since Musk took over.

“Musk’s takeover of Twitter is nothing less than apocalyptic for our communities,” said Thenmozhi Soundararajan, executive director of Dalit civil rights organization Equality Labs. “This is not about hurt feelings. This is about direct calls to violence.”

Soundararajan took part in a press call on Monday in which representatives from a number of advocacy groups spoke out, insisting that reinstating the accounts of known inciters of violence would pose a threat to human rights worldwide.

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