Shortly after laying down its plans for Twitter after a multi-billion dollar takeover, Elon Musk said that he would be willing to reinstate Donal Trump’s account back to Twitter.
In an interview conducted by the Financial Times’ in their Future of the Car conference (Timestamp: 25:26), Musk was asked if he has plans on letting Donald Trump back on Twitter. Trump was initially banned from Twitter last January 2021 due to tweets that had incited the storming of the US Capitol building.
Musk responded by questioning the use of permanent bans and stating that he and Founder and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shared the same sentiment. Musk stated that they should be “extremely rare” and reserved for “bots or spam scam accounts”.
He vocalized his opinion that it was not correct and a mistake in banning Trump from Twitter since it had ultimately alienated a part of the country that had supported him. Musk made this clear by stating that the decision to ban Trump was a “morally bad decision”, “foolish in the extreme”, and “flat out stupid”.
Musk then stated that he still doesn’t own Twitter yet and that it’s not something that would definitely happen. Further adding that it is also no guarantee that Trump would even come back to Twitter if his account would be reinstated and rather stick to his Truth Social app.
Musk has been vocal about his stance on what he believes to be true freedom of speech and the use of Twitter as a platform for his cause. It was then clarified that this doesn’t mean anyone can say whatever they want as those who Tweet anything wrong or bad would have the specific tweet(s) deleted or made invisible and the user suspended, but not permanently banned.
What do you think of the outlook of Twitter with Elon Musk at the helm and what do you think of seeing Trump back on Twitter? Sound off your thoughts down in the comments!
Musk is spending waaaay too much time on Twitter.