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For: EFE Updated 10 May 2022, 15: 28 pm EDT
The billionaire Elon Musk said Tuesday that if his Twitter purchase operation is closed, he will lift the veto on the social network of former US President Donald Trump, whose account has been closed since the assault on Capitol Hill by thousands of his followers at 2021.
“I would reverse the permanent veto. But I don’t own Twitter yet, so this isn’t something that’s going to happen for sure,” Musk said in an interview at the framework of the automobile conference that the Financial Times newspaper celebrates this Tuesday.
The CEO of Tesla described the closure of Trump’s account as ” error” when he believes that he has alienated a large part of the United States and that, moreover, it did not prevent the former president (2017-2021) continued to communicate with his followers.
Also said that it was a “morally wrong” decision
and that , although he accepts that specific messages on Twitter that violate its rules of use are deleted and that repeat users are temporarily suspended, he does not believe that permanent bans on people should exist on the social network.
“The vetoes p Permanent ones should be extremely rare and reserved for accounts managed by bots or aggressive advertising. I think Donald Trump’s was not the right kind of veto “, indicated the tycoon.
The past 28 March, Twitter’s board of directors accepted Musk’s takeover offer for 44,000 million dollars, at the rate of 54.20 dollars per share, although the operation still needs to be approved by regulators.
The businessman of South African origin, very fond of this social network, has presented himself as a defender of “freedom of expression” on the platform and now it seems to carry that mission by flag in its new conquest.
Trump has been banned from what was his favorite social network during his presidency since January 2021, when Twitter considered that there was He has published messages inciting thousands of his followers to storm the US Capitol while the inauguration of his successor and current president, Joe Biden, was celebrated.
The former president has assured that even if Musk allows him to return to Twitter, he has no intention of doing so, and that he prefers to use his own social network, TRUTH Social, as the only channel.
“I’m not going to Twitter, I’m going to stay TRUTH (truth),” Trump said in statements to the Fox television network at the end of April.
“I hope that Elon buy Twitter because it will improve it and he is a good man -he remarked-, but I am going to stay in TRUTH”.
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