ELON MUSK SAYS HE WOULD END TWITTER’S BAN ON DONALD TRUMP

Tue 10 May 2022:

Elon Musk stated on Tuesday that if his acquisition of Twitter goes through, he will lift former President Trump’s Twitter ban.

At a Financial Times conference Tuesday, Musk said Twitter’s ban of the former president was a “morally bad decision” and “foolish in the extreme.” He added that he believes the platform should not enact permanent bans, and should instead look at temporary suspensions or timeouts.

“I think it was a morally bad decision, to be clear, and foolish in the extreme,” said Musk, the CEO of Tesla, while speaking at the Financial Times’s “Future of the Car” event.

“I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump. I think that was a mistake,” he added. “It alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice.”

Twitter permanently banned Trump shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, saying that the then-president’s posts on the platform could encourage more violence.

The former president, who boasted over 80 million followers on Twitter, has said that he will instead stay on the social media platform launched by his media company, Truth Social.

Trump has recently become more active on that platform, sharing “truths” with his 2.66 million followers there.

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