<p class="content-excerpt">Online safety experts say this will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation</p> <div class="components"> <p>Elon Musk said late Thursday that he will provide "general amnesty" to suspended accounts on Twitter starting next week, after running a poll on whether to do so for users who had not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam.</p> <p>Out of the roughly 3.2K votes Musk polled, 72.4% were in favor of bringing back users who had been suspended by the platform.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>“The people have spoken. Amnesty begins next week. Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk tweeted using a Latin phrase meaning “the voice of the people, the voice of God.”</p> <p>Open to all users, polls on Twitter are notoriously unreliable and potentially targeted by fake accounts and bots.</p> <p>Last week, Musk reinstated some previously suspended accounts, including&nbsp;<a class="link" title="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/technology-science/1668922034-trump-twitter-account-reappears-after-musk-poll" href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/technology-science/1668922034-trump-twitter-account-reappears-after-musk-poll" _mce_href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/technology-science/1668922034-trump-twitter-account-reappears-after-musk-poll">former U.S. President Donald Trump</a>, conservative satirical website Babylon Bee and liberal comedian Kathy Griffin.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> </div>