Billionaire Elon Musk, who is set to buy Twitter, has said he would reverse the platform's 'foolish' ban on former US president Donald Trump if his acquisition goes through
The tycoon said:"Permanent bans should be extremely rare and really reserved for accounts that are bots or spam, scam accounts. I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump. I think that was a mistake because it... did not ultimately result in Trump not having a voice."Billionaire Elon Musk, who is set to buy Twitter, has said he would reverse the platform's"foolish" ban on former US president Donald Trump if his acquisition goes through.
The tech tycoon said:"Permanent bans should be extremely rare and really reserved for accounts that are bots or spam, scam accounts. I do think 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."added."I don't own Twitter yet. So this is not like a thing that will definitely happen, because what if I don't own Twitter?", went on:"I think permanent bans just fundamentally undermine trust in Twitter as a town square where everyone can voice their opinion.
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