Well, he’s back. Kind of. Elon Musk did exactly what we all assumed he would do when he took over Twitter and fired all the people in charge of ethics and safety and whatnot.
He reinstated the account of Donald Trump. For those who don’t know, the former POTUS’ account was permanently disabled in January 2021.
He’d been posting misinformation his entire time in office, of course, but it was the “Big Lie” after the 2020 election that finally crossed the line.
He was clearly the source of the fervor which led to the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol, and yet his rhetoric about the election being stolen only continued. Related: Trump Seems To Have Admitted To Another YUGE Crime On Social Media Twitter’s legal policy team, led by exec Vijaya Gadde (whom Elon fired on his first day) came to the controversial decision that Trump’s account had to go “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” They wrote in an explanation of the tweets that broke the bird’s back: In the end, the President of the United States may have been above the law for some reason, but he wasn’t above Twitter’s terms of service.
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