The controversy over
the suspension of a Twitter account belonging to a journalist critical of NBC's Olympics coverage deepened Tuesday. UK daily The Telegraph reports that NBC officials say Twitter alerted the network first about
The Independent correspondent's tweets, which Twitter later confirmed.
Twitter's move will likely upset those already complaining that Twitter's actions were
an affront to free speech even more: the social network actually informed NBC's social media department
how to use its complaint system, which resulted in the suspension.
Adams' account was reinstated this morning, with Twitter itself spending Tuesday doing damage control and admitting it messed up. "We do not proactively report or remove content on behalf of other users no matter who they are. This behavior is not acceptable and undermines the trust our users have in us", General Counsel Alex Macgillivray wrote
in a blog post.
