Elon Musk Begins Reinstating Banned Twitter Accounts And Confirms He’s Not Worried About Staff Quitting
Amid a widespread wave of resignations, billionaire Elon Musk has reportedly begun reinstating banned Twitter accounts.
These
are those accounts that had been subjected to a lifetime ban. Hence,
taking this decision is definitely proof of how he wishes to embark on a
much lighter moderation through this app.
As revealed on
Friday, those accounts affected belonged to names like celeb Kathy
Griffin and even Jordan Peterson. And now, it’s believed that some of
these accounts were actually facing a ban for misgendering others. For
instance, we had Peterson send out controversial tweets mentioning how
he would die then delete his statements about Elliot Page.
As
far as comedian Kathy Griffin is concerned, well, she was banned 11 days
back for impersonation of Musk himself and that was related to the
upcoming midterm elections. During that time, Musk reassured others that
the comedian would be welcomed back soon, provided she paid the $8 fee
for Twitter’s Blue Subscription.
For now, it’s not too clear if
more accounts would be reinstated and when they would be reinstated.
Remember, former US President Donald Trump is yet to be allowed back on
the app. This is despite the fact that he’s recently announced his bid
to get his presidency back. So for now, the decision linked to Trump’s
ban isn’t confirmed as revealed by Musk recently.
All of this
news coming out from Twitter has made us realize one important aspect.
It’s very conflicting what Musk says and what he does. At first, he
mentioned that content moderation councils would be made and it’s going
to be widely diverse. He also said that their decision would be the
final decision. But now, he’s automatically getting accounts reinstated.
Today, he failed to mention which council was seeing the decisions.
The
news is coming out at a time when we’re viewing Twitter enter into a
major crisis. Thousand of workers were initially fired and now thousands
are choosing to resign. And the way things are taking place, we’re
seeing the workforce go down by half.
Some of the departures have
been major. And that is what has led to a major chaos in the firm.
Yesterday, Musk sent out an email to all staff members about how the
office would be shut for all software engineers. And those writing it
needed to report to the 10th floor.
On the other hand, we saw Elon Musk mention boldly how he wasn’t worried
about people leaving the organization. He reassured the world that he’s
got the best team by his side and only the best have been selected to
serve.
When people asked Elon Musk on the Twitter platform what
exactly the matter was and why so many employees were resigning in
masses, he replied with how he was not super worried. Instead, he claims
that only the best are supposed to stay and that’s what’s happening
now.
On Wednesday, the world’s richest man issued an ultimatum
for workers to either stay or resign and it’s interesting to see how
many are choosing the latter when compared to the former.
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