On Monday, Media Matters, a progressive media watchdog group, warned that Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter would bring Donald Trump back to the network and give extremists and white supremacists free rein.
Republicans in the United States, however, some in the White House and elsewhere, are cheering a prospective Musk agreement with Twitter, believing that a takeover by the Tesla CEO could reverse the decision that led to Trump's removal from the platform. A group of 209 House Republicans asked for just that on Monday.
Elon Musk Agrees To Buy Twitter For $44 Billion
In a statement, Media Matters president Angelo Carusone stated, "The sale of Twitter to Elon Musk would be a victory for disinformation and the people who peddle it." Following the insurgency in the United States, Trump earned a lifetime ban from Twitter on January 8, 2021, according to Carusone. Within weeks, Capitol would return to the platform.
Donald Trump isn't the only right-wing figure who could return to Twitter following a suspension. US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's account was suspended after she violated the company's COVID-19 disinformation policy, but she began fighting for its reinstatement using her Congressional account on Monday.
Media Matters is pushing Twitter's board of directors to include specific stipulations in any potential arrangement with Elon Musk that would preserve existing community standards, including the expulsion of violators, according to Fortune.
Donald Trump Says He Won't Return to Twitter
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has no plans to rejoin Twitter, and the previous president stated on Monday after it became introduced that billionaire Elon Musk sold the social media platform for $ forty-four billion. Instead, he's focusing on his program, TRUTH Social, whose popularity waned following a spike of interest after its buggy App Store debut. Android users are still unable to access it.
Despite not posting since the platform's introduction two months ago, the former president told Fox News that he'd be a frequent user in as little as a week. "I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH. I hope Elon buys Twitter because he'll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUT," Trump told the outlet.
Trump said that his app was receiving a better reaction than Twitter, although he did not explain how. The former president was permanently suspended from Twitter on January 6, last year, after a riot over a sedition message to his supporters. Some of his supporters rushed into the US Capitol that day, Daily Mail reported.
Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter on Monday implies the social media network might undergo significant changes, including the return of Donald Trump, the verification of every human user, and the conversion of the company's headquarters into a homeless shelter.
While Musk has not directly stated that he will allow Trump to return to Twitter, he has stated that the site's existing moderation procedures are excessively restrictive, leading to speculation regarding Trump's comeback. Elon Musk said last week that a social media platform's regulations are excellent if the most extreme 10% on the left and right are equally unhappy, indicating how he would manage content moderation concerns on Twitter.
To combat spam, the billionaire has stated that he wants to authenticate all actual persons that use the site. Furthermore, Musk has stated that he is exploring auditing a Twitter "edit button," and that one approach to minimize misuse of the function may be to "zero out" retweets and likes when a tweet is modified.
Musk has stated that he plans to make Twitter's algorithm public to address concerns raised by certain users who feel that particular tweets are unfairly boosted or degraded, as per New York Post.
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