Who could resist an invitation like this: Twitter owner Elon Musk says comic Kathy Griffin can return to Twitter — but he misspelled her name as “Kathie.”
Musk sent a tweet today with the following: “Kathie Griffin, Jorden Peterson & Babylon Bee have been reinstated.”Peterson, a right-wing author, spells Jordan.
Griffin, who was suspended after impersonating Musk on satirical postings, replied to the invitation via Instagram.
“Dear Eilon,”Griffin responded via Instagram. “You f**ked up, fool. I’m going downstairs to my basement of heads. You’re up. Xxoo, The Beheader”
As for Donald Trump’s suspended account, Musk wrote that a “decision has not yet been made.”
The Babylon Bee, a conservative satirical website that lost its posting privileges in March after a transphobic tweet about U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, responded to today’s decision from Musk with: “We’re back. Let that sink in.” The site’s March 19 tweet about Levine remains on the Bee’s page.
Peterson, a right-wing author and clinical psychologist, was banned by Twitter last summer after he posted a crude name calling Elliot Page trans actor. A copy of that post remains on Peterson’s reactivated account that now features a pinned post stating, “I’m back. Thanks @ElonMusk” above a photo of Jack Nicholson’s “here’s Johnny”Scene from The Shining.
Musk mentioned the three reactivated accounts in a tweet today announcing that Twitter’s new “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.”