Twitter Will Not Reinstate Banned Users Without ‘Clear Process,’ Musk Says

Banned accounts will not be permitted back onto Twitter until finally the social media platform has “a clear approach for undertaking so,” Elon Musk tweeted in the early hrs on Wednesday, providing additional clarity about the likely return of Twitter’s most famous banned person, former U.S. President Donald Trump.

Developing such a system would just take at minimum a handful of much more months, Musk tweeted. The new timeline indicates Trump will not return in time for the midterm elections on Nov. 8.

Twitter people, advertisers and its have workers have been looking at closely for indicators of what Musk will do in his first 7 days as Twitter’s owner. The Tesla main government has earlier reported Twitter should really not permanently ban consumers and that he would reverse the ban on Trump, who was suspended for chance of additional incitement of violence just after the U.S. Capitol riot previous calendar year.

Musk’s tweets came just after he held a contact with various civil rights companies including Color of Improve, the Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP on Tuesday.

Through the phone, Musk committed to uphold Twitter’s content material moderation policies and enforcement all around election integrity, mentioned Rashad Robinson, president of Shade of Improve, in an job interview.

Musk also reiterated in his tweet on Wednesday that Twitter will build a written content moderation council composed of associates with “widely divergent views.”

The billionaire expressed all through the connect with that he would like the civil society teams to join the council, Robinson said, adding the conversations were being still at an early stage.

“Steps will discuss louder than words and phrases,” he reported. “The difficulties that ended up dealt with in this conference were being just the tip of the iceberg.”