Twitter will offer a “general amnesty” next week to suspended accounts that “have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam” after 72% vote yes in a poll (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)

Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources: Twitter has begun reinstating ~62K accounts with more than 10K followers after Musk’s poll on general amnesty; one of those accounts has 5M+ followers  —  They’re skeptical of their workers, too.  PLUS: New details on Musk’s ‘general amnesty’ for banned Twitter users  —  and Zoë Schiffer

Herb Scribner / Axios:
Musk is running a Twitter poll on reinstating Donald Trump, after saying in October that Twitter will form a “content moderation council” to make such decisions  —  Elon Musk dropped a 24-hour poll on his own Twitter feed Friday night asking whether or not to reinstate former President Trump to the social media platform.

Bloomberg:
Microsoft says it will publish annual reviews of internal harassment claims and heed recommendations made by a law firm hired after reports of Gates’ misconduct  —  Microsoft Corp. will adopt a series of new sexual harassment policies, following recommendations made by a law firm the company hired …

Corin Faife / The Verge:
Data analysis of Twitter’s Birdwatch crowdsourced moderation tool: posts regarding COVID and “stop the steal” misinformation have been top areas of focus  —  Analysis by The Verge shows that Birdwatch users regularly tackle misinformation topics with the highest stakes, including pandemic response

Reuters:
Twitter reinstates Trump’s account, after Elon Musk ran a Twitter poll where 51.8% of 15M+ users voted yes to reinstatement, saying “the people have spoken”  —  Donald Trump on Saturday said he had no interest in returning to Twitter even as a slim majority voted in favor …

Blake Brittain / Reuters:
SCOTUS refused to hear an appeal by Virginia-based Centripetal Networks to reinstate a $2.75B award to be paid by Cisco in a cybersecurity patent dispute  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a bid by Centripetal Networks Inc to reinstate the largest award in the history of U.S. patent law …