Republican Mark Finchem regains access to Twitter account less than an hour after Elon Musk’s intervention

Mark Finchem has regained access to his Twitter account, just an hour after Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk said that he would “look into” the suspension of the Arizona Secretary of State candidate who will be running for the November 8 mid-term elections.

Currently a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, Finchem posted on his Facebook that he had been suspended from his Twitter account, for allegedly breaking “Twitter rules” earlier on Monday. He followed up by saying that he had not been notified about what he “did wrong” to lose access to his tweeting privileges.

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“Twitter has blocked my account from speaking truth with one week left until the election,” he wrote on Facebook, adding, “They are trying to put their thumb on the scales of this election. Tag Elon Musk and tell him to unban me right now.”

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A lawyer by the name of Jenna Ellis, who used to represent former president Donald Trump in 2020 tagged Elon Musk with a screenshot of the suspension. Barely an hour later after Musk’s reply to the tweet, Finchem had regained access to his account. 

Though Finchem has been in the Arizona House of Representatives since 2015, he backed Trump’s claim that the election was stolen. Finchem was also present at the January 6 riots at Captiol Hill and has been known to support various conspiracy theories.

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The tech billionaire has been fielding questions, suggestions and criticism about Twitter ever since he took over the social media platform on Thursday, October 27. Since then, he has fired CEO Parag Agarwal, Head of Policy, Legal and Trust Vijaya Gadde, General Counsel Sean Edgett and CFO Ned Segal. Not only that, Musk has announced the formation of the content moderation council that will oversee moderation policies and account reinstatements. 

The same day that Musk officially acquired Twitter, he also changed his bio on the platform to chief Twit. Since then, he has changed his bio once more to Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator.