![]() Some of Musk's fellow Silicon Valley expatriates have been cheering him on from afar in South Florida, including Keith Rabois of the Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that set up shop in Miami last year. Musk shrugged off the exodus, saying, "The best people are staying, so I’m not super worried." With critical teams gone, speculation abounded that the platform would begin crumbling any day. Hundreds of workers responded by departing en masse. Last week, he gave Twitter’s remaining employees a 36-hour ultimatum: leave the company or commit to an "extremely hardcore" redevelopment of Twitter. Among other contentious moves, Musk laid off Twitter workers, fired those in dissent (in some cases publicly), and generated mass confusion with a new blue-check Twitter verification system. The Trump Twitter reinstatement was just the latest controversy sparked by Musk since he took over the social media giant last month as part of a $44 billion acquisition. NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement that “in Elon Musk’s Twittersphere, you can incite an insurrection" and "still be allowed to spew hate speech and violent conspiracies on his platform.” "Trump will be reinstated."Ĭivil rights groups have warned that if Trump returns to the platform, his daily barrage of conspiracy theories and misinformation will further destabilize the country. "The people have spoken," Musk wrote on Twitter the evening of November 19. Musk announced over the weekend that he'd be restoring Trump's account following an informal poll in which 15 million users participated, the majority of whom voted to bring Trump back to the social media platform, according to Musk. While Trump's account is once again active, it remains unclear if or when the former president will actually return to Twitter. ![]() Nearly two years after Twitter banned former President Donald Trump's account for inciting the January 6 Capitol Hill riot, the social media platform's new leader Elon Musk has reinstated him. ![]()
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