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Twitter restores Zero Hedge after admitting mistake

Twitter Inc. reinstated the account of Zero Hedge after suspending it earlier this year, saying it made a mistake in accusing the financial website of violating rules against harassment, reports Siraj Datoo of Bloomberg News.

Datoo reports, “‘We made an error in our enforcement action in this case,’ a spokesperson for Twitter said in an email. ‘Based on additional context from the account holder in appeal, we have reinstated the account. We have a dedicated appeals process for all account holders.’

“The social network banned Zero Hedge’s Twitter account in January after its pseudonymous author ‘Tyler Durden’ published an article questioning the involvement of a Chinese scientist in the outbreak of the coronavirus. The article also included the name and personal information of a scientist who it said may have knowledge about the source of the virus.

“In a piece titled ‘Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?’, Durden included a picture of a scientist at Wuhan’s Institute of Virology and suggested users could pay him ‘a visit’ to find out more about what caused the outbreak.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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