The new owner and head of Twitter for three weeks, Elon Muskannounced this Friday that “some accounts” suspended on the platform are “re-established, but that”He has not yet made a decision on the Donald Trump case“.
The South African tycoon tweeted that the accounts of the American comedian and humorist Kathy Griffinby the Canadian psychologist Jordan Bernt Peterson and that of the conservative news satire website Babylon bee “have been restored”.
“Twitter will not allow anyone who has been removed from the platform for violating its rules to rejoin until we have a clear process to do so, which will take at least a few more weeks,” the billionaire said days ago.
However, before Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter was completed, Trump made it clear that he has no plans to return to the social network. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’s going to improve it and he’s a good man, but I’m sticking with Truth,” he stressed, explaining that “Twitter has bots and fake accounts.”
Former President Trump was temporarily suspended from Twitter after justifying in a tweet the assault carried out by his supporters on the Capitol, on January 6, 2021, with an attempt to prevent the counting of votes and the electoral certification of his Democratic rival Joe Biden, who won the 2020 election.
Twitter later returned the account to him with the warning that “any further violation of Twitter’s rules would result in” a permanent suspension, and on Friday, after analyzing Trump’s last two tweets, he decided to take that extraordinary step.
“After a thorough review of recent tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context surrounding them, we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement to violence,” Twitter said in a statement posted on its official blog.
The social network explained that Trump’s tweets, in which he defended his constituents and announced that he would not attend the inauguration of Joe Biden on January 20, were interpreted on social networks as “a withdrawal from his previous commitment” with an “orderly transition “. “
Additionally, his messages “can serve as an encouragement to those who may be considering violent acts (by making it clear) that the inauguration would be a ‘safe’ target, because he will not attend,” Twitter added.
The three Twitter accounts restored by Elon Musk
The actress Kathy Griffin had been suspended in early November, after will change his profile name to that of Elon Musk. “Going forward, any Twitter user who participates in the identity fraud without clearly specifying ‘parody’ it will be definitively suspended”, explained the tycoon.
The story of the clinical psychologist jorgan petersonFor his part, he was blocked on July 1, after he tweeted about a surgery performed on actor Elliot Page, formerly known as Ellen Page, the star of the award-winning film Juno. Twitter later clarified that Peterson had hacked the code of “hateful conduct”.
Months ago, on March 22, the platform had suspended the account of The Bee of Babylonconsidering as “hate content” a post he made about Rachel Levinea transgender official in Joe Biden’s government.
With information from Telam.
Source: Clarin
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