Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk are back on Twitter, but their respective returns have nothing to do with Elon Musk, the company has clarified.
Both were locked out of their accounts last month after comments in which they called Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine — a transgender woman — a man.
A similar tweet about Levine from the Babylon Bee also saw its account suspended. The satirical conservative publisher has yet to delete the tweet, and is still locked out of its account.
But Carlson and Kirk are back after each capitulated to Twitter’s demands they remove the posts, which Twitter said violated its terms of service. Both also attributed their returns to Musk without mentioning they complied with Twitter’s policies.
Carlson announced his return to Twitter on Monday, hours after it was reported Musk would buy the company for $44 billion.
On Tucker Carlson Tonight that evening, Fox News displayed a chyron that might have led viewers to believe Musk had liberated Carlson’s account.
ccording to Twitter, both accounts are back because they removed the posts which were deemed offensive.
The company told the Daily Beast: “This is not due to a change in our policies, this means the account went through the process to regain access — meaning they deleted the violative Tweet.”
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