The Babylon Bee's Twitter account was restored on Friday after eight months of being locked, due to a joke about transgender Biden administration official Rachel Levine.
’s Twitter account was reinstated on Friday after it had been suspended on the platform earlier this year, in the latest dramatic move under new owner Elon Musk.
The Bee published a joke news entry congratulating the medical official on being awarded its"Man of the Year" award for 2022; Levine identifies as a transgender female. out of its account for sharing the satirical article stipulating it could regain access to its account if it deleted the tweet. After almost eight months of the outlet being suspended on Twitter, having never given into deleting the offending tweets, The Babylon Bee suddenly reappeared on Twitter Friday.Musk hauling a sink into TwitterWithin minutes of the outlet’s return, Musk tweeted out news of a change in Twitter policy and then announced other prominent accounts being let back onto the platform.
He wrote,"New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & 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."He noted Kathy Griffin and Jordan Peterson had also been reinstated.
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