After turning Twitter upside down, Elon Musk tried to clarify his plans for content moderation, a key issue for the future of the influential platform after the departure of advertisers and top executives.
Musk on Friday said he had reinstated certain banned accounts on his site, but added that no decision had been made on welcoming back former US president Donald Trump.
In the same blast of tweets, Musk unveiled a new method for handling future hateful or"negative" content that seemed to seek a balancing act between unadulterated free speech and some form of policing on the site. Ella Girwin, his newly installed chief of trust and safety, called Musk's approach"a core principle for Twitter... helping us ensure we maintain a healthy platform."To make his point, Musk then announced the reinstatement of three twitter accounts that had been banished for violating Twitter's content moderation policies.
The Babylon Bee, a conservative parody site, was banned in March for similar tweets against Rachel Levine, a trans woman serving as US assistant secretary of health. Expanding at length on why he had left Twitter last week after seven years, Roth said that Musk was facing a huge challenge to achieve his free speech vision.
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