I don’t know if this has been mentioned before, but CNN reports that Musk intends to set up a “content moderation council” at Twitter – which means banned users like Trump may not be back in the immediate future. But here’s the funny part, and I quote the article:
Twitter, however, already has a Trust and Safety Council, which is comprised of a “group of independent expert organizations from around the world” to “advocate for safety and advise us as we develop our products, programs, and rules.” It’s unclear if Musk was aware of that fact.
I think CNN was being excessively deferential. I think it’s quite likely that Musk – who is a genius in many technical areas but also a socially inept doofus – never had much meaningful contact with Twitter execs as he was going about his whimsical purchase of the company – which was in much the same way that normal mortals might whimsically buy a new shirt – and so there were a lot of important things he really didn’t know about the company.
OTOH, if it turns out that he did know about the existing content moderation council, then this signals his intent to fire them all and appoint his own stooges who would be much more amenable to allowing hate speech or, say, the promotion of insurrections.
So take your pick – the future of Twitter is in the hands of someone who is either an uninformed incompetent or a promoter of disinformation and incendiary hate speech.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/media/musk-twitter-content-moderation-council