One of the key functions of this council will be to consider
unblocking the accounts of people who have been permanently suspended. No major
decisions about content moderation or reinstating blocked accounts will be made
without without that council, according to Musk's tweet.
This suggests that the rumoured unblocking of controversial
users, potentially including former US President Donald Trump, will not happen
all of a sudden and might not happen at all. Musk has previously indicated that
he considers account bans contrary to a commitment to free speech, and he
envisions Twitter as a digital "public square".
Elon Musk took over the ownership of Twitter with brutal
efficiency on Thursday. Soon after signing the deal, he fired top executives
including Twitter Chief Executive Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned
Segal and legal affairs and policy chief Vijaya Gadde, according to people
familiar with the matter. He had accused them of misleading him and Twitter
investors over the number of fake accounts on the platform.
"The bird is freed," he tweeted soon after
completing his acquisition on Thursday, referencing Twitter's bird logo in an
apparent nod to his desire to see the company have fewer limits on content that
can be posted.
Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022
No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.
The CEO of electric car maker Tesla and self-described free
speech absolutist has, however, also said he wants to prevent the platform from
becoming an echo chamber for hate and division.
Other goals include wanting to "defeat" spam bots
on Twitter and make the algorithms that determine how content is presented to
its users publicly available.
Yet Musk has not offered details on how he will achieve all
this and who will run the company. © Reuters
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