Musk wants to have Donald Trump on his account.
If he takes control of the company, the billionaire said he would restore the former President's suspended account. The deal is on hold, but he is still committed to the acquisition.
Musk believes that Trump should be allowed to use his account on the basis of free speech.
Musk said in the interview that the ban wouldamplify it among the right and that it was morally wrong.
The experts were asked if the ban turned up his volume on the right.
Professor Charlie Beckett of the London School of Economics said there was a rise in social-media activity immediately after the ban was announced.
For right-wing figures such as Trump getting banned by mainstream platforms could be a Badge of Honor, according to a social data science researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute.
She said that it gives them notoriety and kind of this victimhood that they can exploit when they go to new platforms to say that they have the truth.
In February, Trump launched his own social media app called Truth Social.
Two of the experts Insider spoke to said that Truth Social, which appealed to die-hard fans of the former President, did not amplify his voice because it did not have the reach of Twitter.
Alex Ross, an expert in white nationalism at Portland State University, said that efforts to reconstruct Trump's platform have been restricted to the far right.
When his account was suspended, Trump had almost 89 million followers on the social media site.
Along with the 1/6 trials, banning Trump from the social media site has done the most to put a big wet blanket on political unrest and violence in the United States.
Felix Simon, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, said that Trump's ban damaged his ability to set the news agenda, as other politicians and journalists can help turn one of his tweets into a news story.
He said that it was not the size of the platform or how many users it had that mattered.
Simon said the reaction of the mainstream media would determine if Trump regains his voice.
If the media treat Donald Trump's social media posts as news, it would give him the ability to set the news agenda, thus giving him the power to shape the political agenda of the day.
The Washington Post reported that close advisers thought he would be able to resist if he were allowed back.
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