Elon Musk will reverse Twitter ban of Donald Trump

Tesla Chief Executive and Twitter's new owner Elon Musk said Tuesday he would reverse Twitter's ban on former U.S. President Donald Trump. Elon Musk said he and former CEO Jack Dorsey were on the same page that it was a bad idea to permanently ban someone from Twitter, Jack Dorsey took to Twitter and clarified his stance. Dorsey said he agrees with Elon Musk that permanent bans are a failure. "It was a business decision, it shouldn't have been. and we should always revisit our decisions and evolve as necessary. I stated in that thread and still believe that permanent bans of individuals are directionally wrong," Jack Dorsey said.

I do agree. There are exceptions (CSE, illegal behaviour, spam or network manipulation, etc), but generally permanent bans are a failure of ours and don't work, which I wrote about here after the event (and called for a resilient social media protocol): https://t.co/fQ9KnrCQGX

— jack (@jack) May 10, 2022

The suspension of Trump's account, which had more than 88 million followers, silenced his primary megaphone days before the end of his term and follows years of debate about how social media companies should moderate the accounts of powerful global leaders. Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter shortly after the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol. Twitter cited "the risk of further incitement of violence" in its decision. Musk said Donald Trump himself has announced that he will not come back to Twitter as he has his own social media platform. “This is the point I am trying to make which perhaps not getting across. Banning Donald Trump from Twitter did not end Trump's voice. It will amplify it among the right and that's why it was morally wrong and flat-out stupid,” Elon Musk said.