Elon Musk: No change to Twitter moderation policy yet – Saudi Gazette

Elon Musk: No change to Twitter moderation policy yet – Saudi Gazette

NEW YORK — Billionaire Elon Musk has said there will be no changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies for now after completing his $44 billion (£38.1bn) takeover of the platform.

“To be super clear, we have not yet made any changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies,” he tweeted.

Earlier he announced the creation of a new council to moderate posts. He also tweeted that “anyone suspended for minor & dubious reasons” would be “freed from Twitter jail”.

“Comedy is now legal on Twitter,” he said.

Senior figures at Twitter have announced their exits since Musk took over after long delays to the deal.

Questions are focused on Musk’s future plans for the site.

The potential changes have drawn scrutiny from regulators and divided Twitter’s own users, some of whom are worried Musk will loosen regulations governing hate speech and misinformation, and some of whom feel the previous management curtailed free speech with overly rigorous rules.

Musk said Twitter would be forming a council with “widely diverse viewpoints”.

“No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes,” he said, shortly before confirming that Twitter had ended artist Kanye West’s suspension from the platform before his acquisition.

Rapper Kanye West, known as Ye, had been suspended from