New Twitter owner Elon Musk on Tuesday said the platform won’t allow anyone who was removed from the service to return for at “least a few more weeks” until there is a “clear process” to let them back in, and that he’s spoken to “civil society leaders” about plans concerning content on the site.
“Twitter will not allow anyone who was de-platformed for violating Twitter rules back on platform until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks,” Musk posted early Wednesday.
Musk also said, in a separate tweet, that he spoke with “civil society leaders” about how Twitter “will continue to combat hate & harassment & enforce its election integrity policies.”
He tweeted that those people included Anti-Defamation League (ADL) National Director and CEO Joel Greenblatt; ADL Vice President Yael Eisenstat; Color of Change President Rashad Robinson; Free Press co-CEO Jessica Gonzalez; Asian American Foundation CEO Norman Chen, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson; George W. Bush Presidential Center CEO Ken Hersch; and League of United Latin American Citizens CEO Sindy Benavides.
LOL – throws conservatives a bone with the Bush Center – Hello – Real Conservatives hate warmonger globalist Bush. Might as well put Liz Cheney on the council and pretend Republicans have a voice.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) November 2, 2022
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Combating hate doesn't seem what this guy specializes is, more like the opposite. pic.twitter.com/OBNSibjnvx
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) November 2, 2022
Musk spoke more Wednesday about the formation of a content moderation council that he first announced last week, tweeting Wednesday that “Twitter’s content moderation council will include representatives with widely divergent views, which will certainly include the civil rights community and groups who face hate-fueled violence.”
He has described himself as being in favor of absolute free speech, which has sparked concerns that Twitter will loosen its content moderation practices while allowing people like de-platformed former President Donald Trump to return to the social media site after he finalized its purchase, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Musk’s comments were made while responding to a post from Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety and integrity, who had said that “we’re staying vigilant against attempts to manipulate conversations about the 2022 US midterms.”