Episode 6 of the Twitter Files dropped yesterday, adding to the growing mountain of evidence that the FBI has been an active partner (if not a supervisor) of the social media platform for a number of years. But it happened in the middle of an ongoing firestorm that erupted after Elon Musk suspended the accounts of multiple journalists who linked to the account of a Florida college student who tracks the movements of Musk’s private jet. He asserted that not only the student, but the reporters tweeting links to the account were doxxing Musk and his family. The ongoing drama and the obvious disconnect between silencing reporters while claiming to be a champion of free speech had engulfed the news cycle for multiple days. But last night, Musk appeared to think better of his decision and lifted the suspensions.

Elon Musk has reinstated the Twitter accounts of a half dozen journalists who had been briefly suspended for showing how to track the location of the billionaire’s private jet.

The move to lift the bans early Saturday came after Musk faced a firestorm of criticism from prominent political figures, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, for suspending the accounts.

The Twitter CEO said he allowed the users back on the platform based on the results of a 24-hour Twitter survey that he posted Thursday night where he asked if the accounts should be reinstated immediately or in seven days. More than 58% of voters urged him to unsuspend the journalists “now.”

As noted in the linked report, Musk lifted the suspension after conducting another online poll. He’s apparently sticking with his previous theme of Vox populi, vox Dei when making such decisions. But the very public spat had already raised new questions about the direction he is taking the company in, even among some of his most staunch supporters.

On Thursday night, Musk briefly joined a Twitter Spaces call hosted by BuzzFeed reporter Katie Notopoulos. A number of reporters attempted to ask him some questions about the reason for the suspensions. But reading through the transcript of the call, it’s not hard to see why some of the participants described him as sounding “incoherent.”

“And ban evasion, or trying to be clever about it… like, oh, I posted a link to the real-time information is obviously a… that is obviously simply trying to evade the meaning. That is… it’s no different from paste… from actually sharing real-time information,” Musk said, clearly struggling to make his point.

Even more bizarrely, after Musk dropped out of the call, he shut down the entire Twitter Spaces feature for everyone. He did restore the feature the next day, but it clearly appeared to be a decision regarding the company’s services that was made in a fit of pique.

I’ve already pitched in my two cents on the doxxing claims that Musk has been making over the past few days. None of it makes any sense. The account of the student in question is only posting air traffic information that is widely available to the public through any number of flight tracking apps. No proof has been offered that the stalker who jumped on the car carrying Musk’s child had ever even heard of that account. Further, we later learned that the attack on the car took place far away from the nearest airport and a full day after the last time Musk’s plane had been in the air. So the attacker could not have received any “real-time location” information about the car’s whereabouts from that Twitter account.

While I have absolutely no evidence to back this up, I’m going to suggest the possibility that some of the rash decisions Elon Musk has been making lately, particularly late at night, have been the result of him imbibing some recreational substances. These erratic actions, followed by retractions the next morning would seem to fit into that sort of pattern. Let’s not forget that the billionaire Twitter owner has never made any secret of the fact that he likes to party sometimes. You probably remember when he seemingly fired up a blunt on Joe Rogan’s show.

None of this adds up to the end of the world or even the end of Twitter as far as I’m concerned. But it’s clearly not a good look. Elon Musk has tremendous responsibilities riding on his shoulders as he oversees his several corporations. But he’s taken on an even more historic role with his attempts to expose government censorship and the suppression of free speech by the heavily biased Big Tech platforms. Acting out in this fashion makes Musk seem unserious and I hope he’ll buckle down now as we navigate these troubling waters.