Elon Musk won’t limit Russian government on Twitter after Putin critique
Elon Musk has overturned the decision to limit content from more than 300 official Russian government accounts, including Vladimir Putin's.
In April 2022, six months before the Tesla CEO bought Twitter, the company said it would take action against any country which "restricts access to the open internet while they're engaged in armed conflict".
But self-styled free speech champion Musk has decided that accounts, like former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's, should not be limited.
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Writing on Twitter yesterday (Sunday, April 9), Musk said: "This platform will neither promote nor limit their accounts, but we will rapidly address any attempts at gaming the system.
"It is a weak move to engage in censorship just because others do so. Letting our press be free when theirs is not demonstrates strength."
It comes after he revealed that Vladimir Putin called him a "war criminal" for "helping Ukraine".
"I’m told Putin called me a war criminal for helping Ukraine, so he’s not exactly my best friend. All news is to some degree propaganda. Let people decide for themselves," he said, also yesterday,
He provided the answer while responding to a Twitter user who questioned why Russian leaders were being allowed on the platform.
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The user, Anonymous Operations, posted a screenshot of Medvedev's tweet, that said Ukraine will "disappear" as "no one needs it".
The user asked why Musk, 51, allowed Russian accounts back on the site.
The Telegraph reported that search results, timeline and recommendation tools "are showing Mr Putin's presidential account, the Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and its UK Embassy – all of which had restrictions placed on them when hostilities broke out".
In January Russian state TV host Vladimir Solovyov called Musk a "war criminal" after his company SpaceX donated of more than 20,000 Starlink satellites to Ukraine's military.
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