Elon Musk Is Now In Charge Of Twitter And Reportedly Plans To Free All The Accounts That Were Permanently Banned, Including Donald Trump
Elon Musk, 51, is now at the helm of Twitter and has big plans to change the way the entire social media company functions. After six months of back-and-forth, the $44 billion deal finally closed. Many people on Twitter are upset at the idea that Elon will likely reinstate the accounts that were permanently banned.
In April of this year, Musk announced that he offered Twitter $44 billion to purchase the social media company. The deal was set to go through until Musk investigated and suspected that many of the users on Twitter were nothing more than bot accounts. After he hinted that he was getting cold feet, Twitter took legal action and Musk ended up going through with the deal. The billionaire Tesla founder has appointed himself chief executive officer and it's being reported that he plans to reinstate all the accounts that were previously banned.
Elon Musk Is Now in Charge of Twitter and Reportedly Plans to Free All the Accounts That Were Permanently Banned, Including Donald Trump
Musk has fired much of the executive team at Twitter, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde. He has taken on the role of CEO and even had the general counsel, Sean Edgett, escorted out of the building. Earlier this week, Musk walked into the Twitter headquarters carrying a kitchen sink and tweeted the message, "Let that sink in!"
Yesterday Musk tweeted "the bird is freed," indicating that Twitter is under new management and users can expect more freedom to speak freely.
A person who is familiar with the matter tells Bloomberg that Musk plans on reinstating the accounts of permanently banned people, which includes former President Donald Trump and radio host Alex Jones.
Accounts like The Babylon Bee and Dr. Jordan B. Peterson are currently locked out of their accounts and many are speculating that they will gain access once again. Actress Gina Carano is already back on the site. She shared Musk's tweet about freeing the bird and attached an R2D2 Gif.
A well-known account that goes by Catturd and has nearly 900,000 followers tweeted at Musk to inform him that he is "still shadowbanned, ghostbanned, searchbanned, and Twitter removed 1200 followers today." Musk responded and said he "will be digging in more today." Since then, conservative commentator Catturd has gotten back thousands of followers since Musk promised to address the matter. Leftist users are expressing their discontent at Musk's takeover, especially when it comes to the idea of more banned people being reinstated (as they're all people on the right).
Engineers at Twitter reportedly were locked out of making changes to the code as of noon today and there is footage of data engineers being escorted off the property.
The changes just keep coming and you can expect Twitter to look very different over the next few weeks.