Elon Musk Reveals Plans To Moderate Twitter Content

Elon Musk to form a “diverse” team to moderate Twitter content.

Elon Musk finally completed the dramatic buyout of Twitter this week and immediately fired the CEO and CFO.

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There has been an ongoing debate around how Twitter’s content moderation policies will change with its new owner.

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Elon Musk revealed that they will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.

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Many have expressed that Twitter will fuel hate speech with its new lenient policies supporting absolute free speech.

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However, according to Elon Musk no major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.

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Elon Musk had earlier declared his support for Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

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Elon later tweeted that so far no changes have been made to Twitter’s content moderation policies as of now.

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