{"id":1770794,"date":"2022-12-09T15:18:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T20:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770794"},"modified":"2022-12-09T15:18:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T20:18:14","slug":"elton-john-quits-twitter-cites-misinformation-elon-musk-asks-him-one-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elton-john-quits-twitter-cites-misinformation-elon-musk-asks-him-one-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John Quits Twitter, Cites \u2018Misinformation.\u2019 Elon Musk Asks Him One Question."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felton-john-quits-twitter-cites-misinformation-elon-musk-asks-him-one-question%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770794&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Pop star Elton John announced that he was leaving Twitter, claiming that \u201cmisinformation\u201d was going to \u201cflourish unchecked\u201d on the site thanks to new company policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll my life I\u2019ve tried to use music to bring people together,\u201d John tweeted on Friday. \u201cYet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world. I\u2019ve decided to no longer use Twitter, given their recent change in policy which will allow misinformation to flourish unchecked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All my life I\u2019ve tried to use music to bring people together. Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>I\u2019ve decided to no longer use Twitter, given their recent change in policy which will allow misinformation to flourish unchecked.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elton John (@eltonofficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eltonofficial\/status\/1601200277276659712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love your music,\u201d Twitter CEO Elon Musk responded. \u201cHope you come back. Is there any misinformation in particular that you\u2019re concerned about?\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I love your music. Hope you come back. Is there any misinformation in particular that you\u2019re concerned about?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1601275664098725891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a Twitter user pointed out that it was possible someone else with a leftist perspective actually wrote the verbiage in John\u2019s tweet, Musk noted that celebrities often don\u2019t write the posts under their name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s true that most celebrities don\u2019t write their own posts. More should. Way better to hear directly from them,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s true that most celebrities don\u2019t write their own posts. More should. Way better to hear directly from them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1601290351922159616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One area Musk has changed Twitter\u2019s misinformation policy has been related to the discussion of COVID.<\/p>\n<p>According to an update note posted on Twitter\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/company\/2020\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a> and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/transparency.twitter.com\/en\/reports\/covid19.html#2021-jul-dec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transparency report<\/a>,\u201d as of November 23, the platform is no longer enforcing policies it used to combat \u201cmisleading information\u201d during the COVID pandemic. But there was no formal announcement of a policy change; news broke Tuesday when several conservative users posted screenshots of the updated policy. The policy change is the latest move in Elon Musk\u2019s effort to reform Twitter into a \u201cfree speech\u201d platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy,\u201d the note reads.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives shared screenshots of the updated policy Tuesday and celebrated the change by posting facts about COVID-19 that were once deemed \u201cmisinformation\u201d by Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/29\/tech\/twitter-covid-misinformation-policy\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>, between January 2020 and September 2022, the platform suspended more than 11,000 accounts and took down more than 100,000 individual posts for violating the misinformation policy. Notable users suspended included Republican Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, journalist Alex Berenson, mRNA vaccine researcher Dr. Robert Malone, cardiologist Dr. Peter McCollough, and former San Francisco Giants player Aubrey Huff.<\/p>\n<p>The day after Twitter announced the policy change, CEO Elon Musk announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-announces-blanket-amnesty-for-suspended-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blanket amnesty<\/a> for users suspended from the platform. On November 23, Musk tweeted a poll asking whether or not to unban users that had been permanently suspended. \u201cShould Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>More than three million users voted in the poll, and the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of amnesty; nearly three-quarters of voters, 72.4%, voted \u201cyes,\u201d while just 27.6% voted \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people have spoken,\u201d Musk wrote after the poll concluded. \u201cAmnesty begins next week. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop star Elton John announced that he was leaving Twitter, claiming that \u201cmisinformation\u201d was going to \u201cflourish unchecked\u201d on the site thanks to new company policies. \u201cAll my life I\u2019ve tried to use music to bring people together,\u201d John tweeted on Friday. \u201cYet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1890672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7380,7381,6202,4249,7382,4475,4250,5926,4026,4253,6195],"class_list":["post-1770794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-misinformation","tag-cites","tag-daily","tag-elon","tag-elton","tag-john","tag-musk","tag-question","tag-quits","tag-twitter","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}