Kathy Griffin logs into dead mom’s Twitter to evade Musk ban

Comedian Kathy Griffin used her late mother’s Twitter account on Sunday to defy Elon Musk after he banned her main account for impersonating him.

Earlier that day, Griffin changed the name and photo on her account to Elon Musk’s and tweeted as the platform’s new owner to vote for Democrats in Tuesday’s midterm elections, reports Vulture.

“After much spirited discussion with the females in my life, I’ve decided that voting blue for their choice is only right. (They’re also sexy females, btw.),” she wrote in one tweet with the hashtag #VoteBlueToProtectWomen.

Her account was suspended later Sunday with a note reading,” Twitter suspends accounts that violate the Twitter rules.”

Although her handle continued to show her @kathygriffin handle, having the blue checkmark by someone else’s name goes against the company policy on impersonation.

Some of Griffin’s supporters argued that parody is covered under free speech, which Musk has repeatedly stated would be a key principle of Twitter under his ownership. But others pointed out that Twitter has long had rules against impersonation, but that they were unevenly enforced before.

On Sunday night, Griffin returned to Twitter by logging into the account of Maggie Griffin, her mother who passed away in 2020.

“I mean… you stole that joke, you a—hole,” Griffin replying to a Musk jab about how she had been banned not for impersonating him, but for “impersonating a comedian.”

“People have bee posting that joke for hours, you hack.”

Kathy Griffin continued by asking musk to “please do a better job running this company” and signing with her initials, “KG.”

She claimed in another tweet that Musk targeted her because of her pro-Democrat posts.

Griffin gained notoriety in 2017 by tweeting a photo of herself holding a bloody fake head of then-President Donald Trump, a stunt that reportedly terrified his young son Barron.