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" Twitter has apologised for its role in suspending journalist Guy Adams&amp;#039;s account. Adams, who writes for The Independent, had his account suspended after criticising NBC&amp;#039;s coverage of the Olympics, then posting the email address of one of its executives. Despite Adams&amp;#039;s account being re-instated earlier today, many criticised Twitter for its stance and pointed to NBC&amp;#039;s Olympic partnership with Twitter as a possible reason behind the ban, an assumption that was partly confirmed by the company in a statement earlier. The company re-iterated that a corporate email address still constitutes private information - something that Adams contests - but confirmed that employees were involved in reporting the tweets to NBC. The statement said: &amp;quot;We want to apologize for the part of this story that we did mess up. &amp;quot;The team working closely with NBC around our Olympics partnership did proactively identify a tweet that was in violation of the Twitter Rules and encouraged them to file a support ticket with our Trust and Safety team to report the violation. &amp;quot;Our Trust and Safety team did not know that part of the story and acted on the report as they would any other.&amp;quot;   The statement signed off by re-iterating the company&amp;#039;s commitment to free speech, saying: &amp;quot;We do not proactively report or remove content on behalf of other users no matter who they are. This behaviour is not acceptable and undermines the trust our users have in us.  &amp;quot;We should not and cannot be in the business of proactively monitoring and flagging content, no matter who the user is - whether a business partner, celebrity or friend.&amp;quot; General Counsel of Twitter Alex Macgillivray later sent a tweet to Adams, saying: &amp;quot;Let me to add my personal apology for your suspension.&amp;quot; Photo gallery - London 2012 Olympics in pictures:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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