Donald Trump is allowed to return to the micro-messaging service. Musk used the results of his own personal poll to justify the decision. Less than a week after Trump confirmed he will run for president again in 2024, the account is visible again.
Shortly after taking control of the social network, Musk said he wouldn't be reinstating any banned accounts until the company had set up and convened a content moderation council.
As people were drifting off for the pre-Thanksgiving weekend, he decided to ask his own followers on the social networking site. A poll with buttons to pick "Yes" or "No" was included with the message.
He said that the voice of the people is the voice of God.
The margin of victory was 52– 48. Musk suggested that the poll was being attacked by bots, so we don't know how many of them were. Musk tried to get out of the deal by claiming that as many as 20 percent of the accounts were fake, as well as suggesting that the results of his poll about Russia and Ukraine were caused by bots.
According to Musk, over 134 million people saw the poll. Only 11 percent of people who saw it clicked on one of the buttons.
We don't know if Musk made a decision based on the poll or not. The majority of his followers said he should sell 10 percent of his stock in the company. He said he would abide by the results of the poll. He decided to sell those shares by September, two months earlier, as part of a preset trading plan meant to keep executives from trading on inside information.
After Trump inciting the January 6th Capitol attacks, he was banned from the social media site. The rules against the glorification of violence were broken by Trump. Visitors to his profile were greeted with an "account suspended" message, instead of seeing his tweets.
Musk promised to restore Trump's account when he purchased the social media site. Musk said in May that it was not right to ban Trump. Donald Trump didn't lose a voice because of that, but it was a mistake. I think I would reverse the permaban.
It is not known if Trump will come back to the social media platform. Trump joined Truth Social, which was founded by a firm founded by the former president. Trump said he would stay on Truth Social even if he was invited back. It is becoming very boring. Trump said that they had gotten rid of a lot of good voices on social media.
On Saturday, after being asked about Musk's poll, Trump suggested he might not rejoin. Three hours before the poll closed, Trump told his followers on Truth Social to vote for it.
In May 2022, Musk said that he could no longer support the Democrats and would vote for the Republicans. Musk made a suggestion to his followers to vote Republican.
The content moderation council had been set up, but Musk did not mention it in his announcement. Musk did not mention the content moderation council or the decision to bring back Trump. He promised that no major content decisions or account reinstatements would happen before the council met.
With the former president in possession of his favorite megaphone, he can use it to direct both support and abuse, as well as the implicit support of the media.
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