Elon Musk announced that he would reinstate President Donald Trump’s Twitter account.
On Sunday, Elon Musk announced that Trump’s Twitter account would be restored. “The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” tweeted Musk.
Vox populi, vox dei, a Latin phrase meaning “the voice of the people is the voice of God.”
Following Musk’s announcement, Trump’s account returned to Twitter.
Minutes after business founder Elon Musk declared he was lifting the 22-month suspension imposed on the former president due to incitement of violence, Trump’s previously restricted Twitter account started to emerge on the social media site on Saturday.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has posted a poll on the microblogging site, asking users to vote on whether to allow Trump to reactivate his account after he had previously been banned for life for inciting violence.
The billionaire Twitter founder urged people to “reinstate former President Trump,” giving them the option to choose yes or no. He then tweeted, “Trump poll getting 1 million votes/hour.”
According to the report, a little over 15 million Twitter users participated in the poll, with 51.8% of them choosing to support reinstatement.
Trump had earlier in the day seemed less than enthusiastic.
When asked by a panel at the annual leadership gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition whether he intended to return to Twitter, the former president responded via video, “I don’t see any need for it.”
Trump, who on Tuesday announced his intention to run again for president in 2024, lauded Musk and declared that he had always been a fan. Trump added that Twitter’s issues were “incredible” and that it was plagued by bots and fake accounts.
Trump faced legal issues earlier in 2020 after his account was suspended following the Capitol Hill uprising on January 6, following the US Presidential elections.
The world’s richest man has made several decisions in this way, including one to purchase Twitter, so the introduction of this new policy is not shocking.
Musk started restoring access to accounts on Friday that had previously been banned indefinitely for violating the platform’s policies. Jordan Peterson, a writer, and Kathy Griffin, a comedian, were among the first individuals to have their accounts restored.
“New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted and demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet,” Musk said in an earlier tweet.
A group of US senators asked the nation’s antitrust regulator to supervise the social media platform’s consent decree and compliance with consumer privacy laws after the new Twitter CEO’s recent changes failed to impress them.