Elon Musk reinstated the Twitter account of donald trump after users of the social media platform voted for lift ban on former president from United States. Trump’s account was suspended in 2021 after the Riot at the Capitol on January 6for violating Twitter guidelines and for the risk of “further incitement to violence.”
The account was active again on Sunday, although the former president has not yet published anything for the more than 80 million users who follow him His last tweet was on January 8, 2021, in which he declared that he would not attend the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States
But Elon Musk gave him a wink with a spicy tweetin which you can see the meme of a woman posing seductively in front of a priest who is praying, to which the tycoon who owns Twitter added in English: “and do not lead us into temptation.” A challenge to Trump to moderate?
And lead us not into temptation… pic.twitter.com/8qNOXzwXS9
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 21, 2022
Trump did not seem willing to return to Twitter when he discussed the issue on Saturday. “I don’t see any reason for it,” the former president said via video when asked about it by a panel at the annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition. He said he would stick with his new Truth Social platform, developed by his startup Trump Media and Technology Group.
Last week, Trump announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 and praised Musk, saying that he had always liked it. However, Trump also said that Twitter suffered from bots and fake accounts, and that the problems he was facing were “incredible.”
Elon Muskthe new owner of Twitter, announced the move after a survey in your own account in which more than 15 million votes were cast, with a 51.8% in favor of reincorporation. Shortly after taking over Twitter last month, the Tesla CEO said no decisions on reinstatement would be made until a recently announced “content moderation council” convened, later adding that the bans would not be lifted until there would be a “clear process for doing it”.
Musk, a self-described “freedom of expression absolutist”, first raised the reinstatement of Trump in May after reaching an agreement for 44,000 million dollars to buy Twitter. And he announced that he would “reverse the permanent ban”, claiming that Twitter was “biased to the left”.
This week, Musk reinstated comedian Kathy Griffin, who had been kicked out for changing her profile name to “Elon Musk,” violating his new anti-phishing rule without indicating it was a parody account. He also reinstated Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist and author, who was suspended from Twitter after violating the platform’s content policies with a tweet about the transgender actor. Elliott Page.
Last Friday Twitter temporarily closed its offices after an unspecified number of workers resigned from the company following an ultimatum from Musk that they must commit to “go tough” or leave. According to the New York Times, 1,200 of the 3,750 workers The rest of Twitter, a workforce that had already been cut in half by the Musk acquisition, left the company last week.
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