Elon Musk reactivated Donald Trump’s Twitter account

Donald Trump is permitted to join Twitter Elon Musk announced. Musk defended his decision based upon the results of a Twitter poll. The @realDonaldTrumpOnly days after Trump confirmed his account, its tweets and account are now fully visible. He will run for President againIn 2024.

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 with “widely diverse viewpoints.”

Instead, he decided that he would poll his followers via Twitter on Friday night, while people were heading off to the pre-Thanksgiving weekend. “Reinstate former President Trump,” he Tweet, alongside a poll with buttons to pick “Yes” or “No.”

“Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” he added in a follow-up tweet, Latin for “the voice of the people is the voice of God.”

The “Yes” responses won by a slim 52–48 margin. It is unclear how many of them were bots. Musk himself suggestedBots were attacking the poll. Musk famously tried to exit the Twitter deal Claim your rights that as many as 20 percent of Twitter’s accounts were fake, and he Once, it was suggested that bots were responsible.His controversial poll on Russia and Ukraine.

More The poll was seen by 134 million peopleMusk said that the button received over 15 million responses. This would indicate that only 11 percent clicked on the button.

It is unlikely that we will ever know whether Musk made his decision based solely on the poll or whether he had already decided. November 2021He sold 10% of his Tesla shares. This was after he polled his followers and most said he should. At the time, he wrote, “I will abide by the results of this poll, whichever way it goes.” But The Wall Street Journal revealed he’d already made the decision to sell those shares by September, two months earlier, as part of a preset trading plan meant to keep executives from insider trading.

Former President Trump Twitter was removed from the site on January 8, 2021 “due to the risk of further incitement of violence” after Trump’s role in inciting the January 6th Capitol attacks. Twitter said at the time that Trump’s messages broke its rules For the detest of violence. From that time until this evening, visitors to his Twitter profile were greeted with an “account suspended” message, instead of seeing his tweets.

During the long and rocky process of purchasing Twitter, Musk said he would restore Trump’s account. “I do think that it was not correct to ban Donald Trump,” Musk, May. “I think that was a mistake because it alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice … So I guess the answer is I would reverse the permaban.”

It’s not clear whether Trump will come back to Twitter, invited or not. Trump joined Truth Social after being removed from Twitter. This right-wing social media firm was created by an ex-presidential firm. Following Musk’s comments on allowing him to rejoin Twitter, Trump He stated that he would remain on Truth SocialNo matter whether he was invited again. “Twitter’s become very boring. They’ve gotten rid of a lot of good voices on Twitter, a lot of their conservative voices,” said Trump at the time.

On Saturday, after being asked about Musk’s poll during a Q&A, Trump He suggested that he might not return., saying, “I don’t see it because I don’t see any reason for it.” But TrumpHe also shared his story with his followers On Truth Social, vote for the Twitter poll Saturday afternoon, approximately three hours before it closes.

Musk has said that he was a centrist in his past. May 20, 2222 that he ”can no longer support [Democrats] and will vote Republican.” Just ahead of the US midterms, Musk He publicly advised his followers to vote Republican..

Musk is also available AnnouncedJordan Peterson, Kathy Griffin, and The Babylon BeeAll of them would be restored, but it was not mentioned that the content moderation council had been established. Musk made no mention of a content moderation council alongside this evening’s decision to reinstate Trump, either. It is not clear what happened to his promise that “no major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.”

If Trump decides to return to Twitter, it could have a significant effect on the 2024 US election, with the former president once more in possession of his favorite megaphone: a Twitter account watched by the world’s media that he can use to direct both support and abuse — and the implicit support of that platform’s owner in doing so.