Elon Musk He stole headlines again this week after finishing buying Twitter and performing his first official act: walking into corporate offices carrying a sink.
Although the scene sounds like the opportunity to make a bad joke with an English pun, the sad reality is that it happened.
Immediately afterwards, the tycoon fired the CEO of the company as well as the rest of the key pieces of the legal and administrative team of the platform.
As it happens, these people who no longer work at Twitter were also responsible for exiling Donald Trump and other controversial figures outside the social network.
What by inertia has triggered many doubts and theories about what could be the next move of the executive with a new toy.
It is feared that all these characters will return to the platform and that a new dark age will open for the site. But maybe Elon has a slightly different plan.
Elon Musk plans to create a “moderation council” for Twitter
A report from our friends at Business Insider recounts how the richest man in the world has considered creating a so-called “content moderation council” for the social network he just bought.
It all happened, as would be obvious to expect, through his official Twitter account, where the tycoon and executive shared some of his ideas about the changes he plans to implement:
Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.
No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council agrees.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022
“Twitter will form a content moderation council with very diverse points of view.
No major content decisions or account resets will be made before that council meets.
To be even clearer, we have not yet made any changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies.”
Those lines at the end would allude directly to the case of Donald Trump, who was blocked on Twitter and other social networks after instigating his followers to carry out the riots in the Capitol in January 2021.
Such a statement triggered many questions from his followers on the social network, where the inevitable topic of Kanye West’s account arose, whose reactivation almost coincided with Musk’s arrival:
“Ye’s account was restored by Twitter before the acquisition. They did not consult or inform me.”
So it seems that aside from Trump, the first big headache Elon Musk will have to deal with will be Kanye West’s return to Twitter.