“The people have spoken”, tweeted the billionaire, who had published a poll on Wednesday after which a majority had emerged for the “yes”.
New Twitter boss Elon Musk announced on Thursday that he would reinstate suspended accounts on the platform as of next week, “provided they haven’t broken the law or sent outrageous spamming”. To the question, published Wednesday in the form of a poll on his account, whether Twitter should offer a “blanket amnesty to suspended accounts provided they have not broken the law or sent outrageous spam”72.4% of the approximately 3.16 million people said “yes”.
“The people have spoken“Tweeted Elon Musk, who had published a poll on his network on Wednesday after which a majority emerged in favor of this measure. “Amnesty begins next week”he added a few days after doing the same thing on behalf of Donald Trump.
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It is with this same expression that he had, on Saturday, rehabilitated the account of former American President Donald Trump, banned from the social network after the assault on the Capitol in Washington in January 2021. The leader of Tesla and SpaceX had taken this decision following a similar consultation on the blue bird network, a method of uncertain representativeness. A narrow majority (51.8%) of the 15 million voters had expressed themselves in favor of a return of the Republican billionaire, who has not tweeted since the restoration of his account.
Elon Musk has repeatedly explained that he bought Twitter because he considers the platform to be the “digital public square” essential to democracy in the world. The richest man in the world considers the moderation of content too restrictive, but his absolutist vision of freedom of expression raises fears of a surge of abuse (misinformation, hate speech) on the social network. Many brands have already suspended ad spending on Twitter, which is 90% dependent on it for revenue.