Donald Trump publicly declared that he would not come back to the social media platform and use his own platform, social social.
Le Monde
Soon the end of purgatory for Donald Trump and the return of his raging messages? Elon Musk, who will buy Twitter for $ 44 billion and presents himself as a fervent defender of freedom of expression, announced on Tuesday May 10, that he intended to cancel the exclusion of former American president Donald Trump of the social network.
Speaking at a conference organized by the Financial Times on the future of the automobile, the boss of the manufacturer Tesla described Donald Trump’s exclusion “morally bad and completely stupid”. “What I want to try to say (…) is that banning Trump of Twitter does not prevent him from speaking,” added Mr. Musk, considering that it was even “amplifying [his word] on the right”.
Definitive prohibitions should be “extremely rare” and reserved for example for false accounts, said the entrepreneur. “This does not mean that anyone can say what they want, if they say something illegal or destructive for the world,” added Musk. But it is then necessary to consider temporary suspensions or tweets “which are made invisible” or “with a very limited range”. “But I think that permanent banishments fundamentally undermine confidence in Twitter as a public square where everyone can express their opinion,” he said. Elon Musk added that his reluctance for permanent prohibitions is shared by Jack Dorsey, the co -founder of Twitter and former CEO.
Donald Trump on Truth Social
Twitter permanently suspended the Twitter account of the former tenant of the White House, on January 8, 2021, two days after the invasion of the Capitol by pro-Trump activists, citing in its decision the “risk of ‘Incitation to violence “.
It did not push the latter to silence and on the contrary made his opinion even more popular with the right electorate in the United States, estimated Elon Musk.
At the end of April, the former president said on Fox News that he would not come back to the platform But would use its own platform, Truth social instead: “I hope that Elon will buy Twitter because it will bring improvements to it and he is a good man, but I will stay on truth.”