“The people have spoken” This time, the floodgates are opened to an unknown amount of Twitter ban accounts returning.
A Twitter poll found 72.4% support for the decision. Elon Musk said He’ll offer you a “general amnesty to suspended accounts.”
“Amnesty begins next week,” Musk made the post while Americans were on Thanksgiving Turkey and Football. “Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” He also added, “a Latin phrase which translates into” “the voice of the people is the voice of God.”
It is not clear exactly how many of the hundreds of thousands of accounts that were banned before Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in October will qualify for the so-called amnesty.
Twitter deleted more than 250,000 accounts between February and August 2016. According to Mediaite. It’s likely that banned accounts held by the likes of former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos, Trayvon Martin’s killer George Zimmerman, Trump advisors Roger Stone and far-right activist Laura Loomer will be reactivated next week.
Musk reinstated the account of Donald Trump last week after posting a similar poll , but the former president has a contract with his own Truth Social that requires any social media posts to go to that site first, and has not yet posted anything Twitter.
Trump had previously stated that he wouldn’t return to the platform. However, he has used it in several of his campaigns. He launched his third presidential campaign last week.
Musk also brought back Ye, who was formerly Kanye west, after he said he’d buy Parler, the rival site, following his tweet ban for making antisemitic statements.
Alex Jones (far-right conspiracy theorist) will be the one to lose his account. He was ordered to compensate the victims’ families with nearly $1 billion for damages last month after he repeatedly claimed that the Sandy Hook school shooting had been staged.
“My firstborn child died in my arms,” Musk Tweeted in response to pleas to restore Jones’ account. “I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”
As a response, a post Wednesday Twitter must be restored accounts regardless of the outcome. “clear and consistent about its rules and penalties for breaking them, enforcement should be unbiased, and the mechanisms of enforcement shouldn’t be easily abused by people who have an agenda,” Musk stated, “The more I learn, the worse it gets.”
“The world should know the truth of what has been happening at Twitter. Transparency will earn the trust of the people,” the world’s richest man posted.
“It is objectively the case that ‘conservative’ political candidates were more negatively affected than ‘progressive’ candidates,” He concluded. “Anyone using Twitter knows this. Question is simply one of magnitude.”
This move is coming at a moment when Twitter has a drastically reduced workforce. Musk had fired half the employees he inherited within his first few weeks. Then, he saw an exodus from remaining workers after he asked them to agree to be a part of a restructuring. “hardcore” It was important to have a positive work environment. This included a requirement that staff return to the office every week and that they put in 40+ hours each week. Many members of the content moderation group are reportedly no longer there.
This also shows Musk’s broken promise that he wouldn’t reinstate accounts until a content moderation committee was in place.
Activist groups behind the #StopToxicTwitter campaign, which is working to convince advertisers to pull their support from the platform, say Musk’s moves since he bought the platform have opened it to a huge stream of new hate speech and left vulnerable users open for targeting.
“He drastically changed a major policy banning hate speech to a vague rule where hateful tweets can remain on the site, but supposedly won’t be amplified or monetized. He has thus far failed to provide any details on how this might happen,” Post Tim Karr is the communications director of Free Press. He was instrumental in the creation of this campaign. Karr claimed the campaign has moved 50 of Twitter’s 100 top advertisers to pull their ads.
“Rather than attacking our groups, Musk would benefit from listening to what we have to say,” Karr, added. “Until then, advertisers will continue to head for the exits as his plans of creating a successful online enterprise circle the drain.”
