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| Elon Musk restores Trump Twitter account |
Elon Musk announced that he would allow Donald Trump to regain his Twitter account after users of the platform voted 52% to 48% for the former US president to return to Twitter after an absence of nearly two years from Twitter.
On Friday, Musk released a poll asking if he should "bring former President Trump back." Within 24 hours, more than 15 million people voted, of which 51.8% voted on Twitter to bring Trump back.
As of July 2022, when Twitter filed its most recent quarterly report, it had about 237.8 million daily active users. Trump's account was unblocked when a poll released by Musk on Saturday ended with a small portion of his user base participating, but it was not clear if all of the respondents were real accounts or contained bots.
Musk's long-awaited move paves the way for the former president's return to the social media platform, where he was once its most influential but also its most controversial user. With nearly 90 million followers, his tweets regularly move markets, set news cycles and drive the agenda in Washington.
But Trump previously said: "He sees a lot of problems with Twitter and will stick with his own platform (Truth Social)."
However, Trump is expected to change his mind at any time, which will have major political repercussions, as he announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election a few days ago, and Musk's move gave him a powerful tool for his campaign.
Trump's controversial ban comes days after riots at the Capitol, the seat of the US Congress, on January 6, 2021, when rebels violently protested the results of the 2020 US elections, which Trump lost.
Throughout the Trump presidency; The fact that Twitter played such a central role in his presidency also benefited the platform in the form of countless hours of user interaction, while Twitter officials at the time downplayed his account, sometimes arguing that as an administrator he should have enough space to speak.
But with Trump's term drawing to a close, and disinformation on Twitter blaming voter fraud, that's changing, and the company is placing warning labels on its tweets to correct its misinformation ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The platform banned him indefinitely after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 2021.
On January 8, 2021, the platform suspended Trump's account and explained the reason in a blog post: "After carefully reviewing the account's (realDonaldTrump) tweets and tracking the context behind them - particularly how they were received on and off Twitter. It explained - we have permanently suspended the account due to Risk of further incitement to violence.
When Trump was asked on Saturday what he thought of Musk's takeover of Twitter and his presence on the platform, Trump praised Musk but questioned whether the site would survive the current crisis, as Trump did in a virtual appearance at a meeting of leaders of the Republican Jewish Alliance, he said: "Twitter has a lot of Problems and you look at what's going on... it may work... it may not work." However, Trump says he loves SK horses, and that's how he bought Twitter, too.
It should be noted that shortly after Trump was banned from Twitter, his Facebook and Instagram accounts were also banned, but if the meta-government agrees at the meeting scheduled for January next year, the account may be banned again in January 2023 at the earliest. as possible.