Elon Musk Lets Donald Trump Back on Twitter – Variety

Donald Trump has been allowed back on Twitter, Elon Musk has decided. Trump was kicked off Twitter on Jan. 8 — permanently, the company said at the time — for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. As of Saturday, Trump’s @realDonaldTrump account has been reactivated on Twitter along with his past tweets. However, notably absent from Trump’s account is his Jan. 6 video message to the mob of rioters in D.C. in which he said, “Go home. We love you, you’re very special.” “I know your pain, I know you’re hurt,” Trump said in that video. “We had an election that was stolen from us.” Musk, the mega-billionaire who bought Twitter for $44 billion, had said he would reconsider reinstating people Twitter had banned for various offenses, including Trump. But the billionaire said Twitter would create a content-moderation council with “widely diverse viewpoints” and that “no major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.” Instead, Musk used a poll of his 117 million followers to determine whether Trump would be unbanned. Musk put up the poll Friday, and after 15 million votes, there were 51.8% in favor of letting Trump
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