Elon Musk Backtracks on Making Dark Mode the Only Way to View Twitter

From PC Mag: Elon Musk’s willy-nilly approach to running Twitter was on full display yesterday after he declared that dark mode would become the only way to view the social media platform.

On Thursday, Musk tweeted about the upcoming change, claiming "It is better in every way." But about 15 hours later, he backtracked after numerous users pointed out a key problem with dark mode: It can be a terrible viewing experience for people with visual disabilities.

"To all the people saying 'oh dark mode is better anyways' some people literally need light mode for accessibility reasons. removing this feature is literally ableist,” wrote one user on Twitter.

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