Sun 20 November 2022:
Almost two years after the former US president was barred from the social media site for encouraging violence, Elon Musk has restored Donald Trump’s account on Twitter.
After Musk, the platform’s new owner, conducted a poll on the social media site, which showed slender support for allowing Trump to return, Trump’s account returned on Twitter on Saturday.
More than 15 million people voted in the poll asking whether Trump’s account should be reinstated, with a slim majority of 51.8 percent voting in favour.
“The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated,” Musk tweeted.
Trump, who on Tuesday announced his intention to run again for president in 2024, also hailed Musk and claimed to have admired him his entire life.
But Trump said earlier on Saturday that he had no interest in returning to the platform.
“I don’t see any reason for it,” the former president said via video when asked whether he planned to return to Twitter by a panel at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting.
The people have spoken.
Trump will be reinstated.
Vox Populi, Vox Dei. https://t.co/jmkhFuyfkv
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2022
Trump declared he would remain with his new platform Truth Social, an app created by his start-up Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), which he claimed was performing “phenomenally well” and had higher user interaction than Twitter.
The former president added that Twitter’s issues were “incredible” and that it was plagued by bots and false accounts.
Major advertisers, already alarmed by Musk’s radical remaking of the site, may become less worried if Trump does not return to Twitter.
He has cut the workforce in half and drastically reduced the company’s trust and safety team, which is in charge of preventing the spread of misinformation and harmful content.
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