Musk ‘amnesty’ on banned Twitter accounts will ‘open the gates of hell’

“The only people that this move satisfies are those that are guilty of some of Twitter’s worst crimes.”

Elon Musk’s decision to grant amnesty to accounts previously banned from Twitter amounts to ‘opening the gates of hell to some of the worst people on the internet’, one expert has said (Yui Mok/PA)

Elon Musk’s decision to grant amnesty to accounts previously banned from Twitter amounts to “opening the gates of hell to some of the worst people on the internet”, one expert has said.

Social media commentator Matt Navarra said the decision was “bonkers” and would allow banned users to “come back from their Twitter jail cell” to “harass, abuse and disrupt” others on the site.