‘I think it was a morally bad decision to be clear and foolish in the extreme,’ Musk said during a Financial Times event about Twitter’s ban on Trump.
Elon Musk plans on reversing Twitter’s permanent ban on former President Donald Trump once he completes his takeover of the social media platform. “I do think that it was not correct to ban Donald Trump. 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,” Musk said at a Financial Times event on Tuesday. Musk went on to criticize Twitter’s decision to ban Trump as “foolish,” claiming the action undermined the public’s trust in the social media platform. “Banning Trump from Twitter didn’t end Trump’s voice. It will amplify it on among the right. And this is why it’s morally wrong and flat out stupid,” Musk said. According to Musk, Twitter should only issue permanent bans on accounts belonging to bots, spammers and scammers. For all other accounts, the company should resort to imposing temporary suspensions on the account or making the tweet invisible when the content breaks the rules.
