Elon Musk hasactually taken control of Twitter after a drawn-out legal fight and months of unpredictability. The concern now is what the billionaire Tesla CEO will really do with the social media platform.
Musk provided one indicator of where he’s headed in a tweet Friday, stating no choices on material or renewing of accounts will be made upuntil a “content smallamounts council” is put in location. The council, he composed, would have varied perspectives.
Major workers shakeups are extensively anticipated, with Musk ousting numerous leading Twitter executives on Thursday. A 4th verified his departure, in a tweet.
But Musk, the tech master and self-proclaimed “Chief Twit,” has otherwise made inconsistent declarations about his vision for the business — and shared coupleof concrete strategies for how he will run it after purchasing it for $44 billion.
That has left Twitter’s users, marketers and workers to parse his every relocation in an effort to guess where he may take the business. Many are looking to see if he will welcome back a number of prominent conservative figures prohibited for breaking Twitter’s guidelines — speculation that is just increased by upcoming elections in Brazil, the U.S. and inotherplaces.
“I will be digging in more today,” he tweeted early Friday, in reaction to a conservative political podcaster who has grumbled that the platform prefers liberals and secretively downgrades conservative voices.
Former President Donald Trump, an devoted tweeter priorto he was prohibited, stated Friday he was “very pleased that Twitter is now in sane hands” however promoted his own social media website, Truth Social, that he released after being obstructed from the more commonly utilized platform.
Trump was prohibited 2 days after the Jan. 6 attacks for a set of tweets that the business stated continued to cast doubts on the authenticity of the governmental election and raised threats for the governmental inauguration that Trump stated he would not be goingto.
Trump has consistently stated that he will not return to Twitter even if his account is renewed, though some allies marvel if he’ll be able to withstand as he moves closer to revealing another anticipated governmental project. His Twitter account stayed suspended Friday.
Meanwhile, conservative characters on the website started recirculating long-debunked conspiracy theories, consistingof about COVID-19 and the 2020 election, in a tongue-in-cheek effort to “test” whether Twitter’s policies on falseinformation were still being imposed.
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