There remain some questions about whether Musk will indeed go through with the deal, or whether the decline in Tesla “I will say that I don’t own Twitter yet, so this is not a thing that will definitely happen, because what if I don’t own Twitter?” he said. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO acknowledged that his acquisition of Twitter, and Trump’s return, are not yet a done deal. “Banning Trump from Twitter didn’t end Trump’s voice, it will amplify it among the right and this is why it’s morally wrong and flat out stupid,” Musk said at the event on Tuesday. Trump, for his part, has said he would not return to Twitter even if his account were restored, instead promoting his own social media venture, Truth Social, which has so far appeared to struggle to get off the ground. Other social platforms followed in banning or suspending Trump’s account. Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter following the January 6 Capitol Riot for violating the platform’s rules against violence incitement, a decision the company has said was headed by Dorsey. Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images Samuel Corum/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesĮlon Musk raises an additional $7 billion in financing for Twitter deal Musk was cool but combative as he testified in a Delaware courtroom thatTesla's more than $2 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 wasn't a bailout of the struggling solar provider.
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Twitter declined to comment on Musk’s remarks.Įlon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., departs court during the SolarCity trial in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. “There are exceptions … but generally permanent bans are a failure of ours and don’t work,” he said. … But my opinion, and Jack Dorsey, I want to be clear, shares this opinion, is that we should not have perma-bans.”ĭorsey, Twitter’s cofounder and former CEO, tweeted Tuesday following Musk’s remarks that he does “agree” there shouldn’t be permanent bans on Twitter users. “I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump, I think that was a mistake,” Musk said. Musk has previously said he thinks Twitter should be more “reluctant to delete things” and “very cautious with permanent bans.” On Tuesday, he called Twitter’s decision to ban Trump in January 2021 a “mistake.” Musk’s remarks at Financial Times’ Future of the Car conference mark his first public acknowledgment of what had been widely expected since the billionaire announced plans to buy the social media giant for $44 billion. Elon Musk said Tuesday that he would restore former President Donald Trump’s banned account on Twitter if his deal to acquire the company is completed.
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