On Wednesday (AEST),Musk said that he and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey believe permanent bans should be “extremely rare” and reserved for accounts that operate bots or spread spam.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The suspension of Trump’s account,which had more than 88 million followers,silenced his primary megaphone days before the end of his term and follows years of debate about how social media companies should moderate the accounts of powerful global leaders.
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Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter shortly after the January 6 riot on the US Capitol. Twitter cited “the risk of further incitement of violence” in its decision.
The decision amplified his views among people on the political right,Musk said,calling the ban “morally wrong and flat-out stupid”.
Trump previously told Fox News that he would not return to Twitter even if Musk purchases the platform and reinstates his account,and said he would use his own social media app called Truth Social,a Twitter-like platform that launched on the Apple app store in late February and in which users post “truths” instead of tweets.