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'It was a mistake': Musk unblocks Trump's Twitter account

On May 10, Elon Musk announced that he would restore Donald Trump's suspended Twitter account if his deal to acquire the company was completed. CNN.

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Musk's speech at the Financial Times' Future of the Car conference marks his first public admission of what many have been waiting for since the billionaire announced plans to buy the social media giant for $44 billion.

Musk has previously said that he thinks Twitter should be more "reluctant to delete things" and be "very careful about permanent bans." On May 10, he called Twitter's decision to block Trump in January 2021 a "mistake."

“I really think blocking Donald Trump was wrong, I think it was a mistake,” Musk said. “I would repeal the permanent ban... Jack Dorsey, I want to be clear, shares this view, which is that we should not have permanent bans.”

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Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, tweeted on May 10 following Musk's remarks that he "agrees" that there should be no permanent bans on Twitter users. “There are exceptions… but usually permanent bans are our fault and they don’t work,” he said.

Twitter declined to comment on Musk's remarks.

Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter after the Capitol riot on January 6 for violating the platform's rules against incitement to violence. The decision was made by Dorsey, the company said. Other social platforms have also blocked or suspended Trump's account.

Trump, for his part, has said he will not return to Twitter even if his account is reinstated, instead promoting his own social media venture, Truth Social, which has so far seemed to be struggling to get going.

“Banning Trump on Twitter didn’t end Trump’s voice, it will amplify it on the right, which is why it’s immoral and downright stupid,” Musk said at the May 10 event.

The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has acknowledged that his Twitter purchase and Trump's return are not yet complete.

“I will say that I don’t have Twitter yet and I don’t necessarily have to,” he said.

Some questions remain about whether Musk will actually go through with the deal, and whether the drop in Tesla (TSLA) stock over the past month could negatively impact his ability to fund it. Shares of Twitter (TWTR) traded around $47,70 on May 10 afternoon, well below Musk's $54,20 a share offer price, indicating some investor skepticism about the likelihood of the deal closing.

That hasn't stopped Musk from continuing to lay out his plans for the platform in recent weeks. Musk said his goal is to support free speech on the platform and make it more understandable for users when the platform takes actions that affect what people see on Twitter.

He reaffirmed his desire to rid Twitter of bots that spread spam or scams and make the Twitter algorithm public for viewing and commenting.

“I would literally put the Twitter algorithm on GitHub and say, 'Hey, does anyone want to suggest a change? Please offer,” Musk said, adding that he sees the move as a way to “increase transparency and trust.”

He also criticized what he sees as Twitter's political bias, echoing claims made by some prominent right-wing figures.

“I think Twitter needs to be much more impartial. Currently, he has a strong left bias because he is based in San Francisco,” he said. Twitter has previously said that its algorithms and employees do not discriminate against any particular political viewpoint.

In addition to lifting Trump's ban, Musk said he would make permanent bans "extremely rare," leaving them to "bots or spam, fraudulent accounts where the account just doesn't have legitimacy."

Musk also expanded his vision for content moderation on Twitter.

But Musk acknowledged that there could be a wide range of objectionable content that he would like Twitter to take action against. In addition to illegal content, Musk has identified two other categories of content that may be subject to punishment: speech that is "destructive of the world" and "wrong and bad."

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"If they're saying something illegal or otherwise just disruptive to the world, then maybe there should be a timeout, a temporary pause, or that particular tweet should be invisible or have very limited exposure," Musk said. He added: "I think if there are wrong and bad tweets, they should either be deleted or made invisible, and a suspension, a temporary suspension is appropriate, but not a permanent ban."

Musk did not say what metrics Twitter could use to determine if a tweet could be "wrong and bad" or "destructive of the world" and when it could choose one type of punishment over another.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

  • Several months after he was banned from almost every major social media45 US President Donald Trump is now posting a platform attached to his website called "From Donald Trump's Desk".
  • And an alternative social media platform backed by Donald Trump, Social Truth, earned on February 21 and became available for download in the Apple App Store, but so far access to the service is limited.

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