Former US President Donald Trump expressed his joy at the takeover of Twitter by tech billionaire Elon Musk. “I’m very happy that Twitter is now in healthy hands and no longer run by left-wing idiots and lunatics who genuinely hate our country,” Trump wrote Friday on Truth Social, a social media platform he co-founded. The acquisition of Twitter has now been officially confirmed.
Twitter informed the US Securities and Exchange Commission of the withdrawal from the exchange, thereby confirming the completion of the acquisition. Elon Musk had bought the SMS service for about $44 billion (44.2 billion euros). Now the platform has to work hard to get rid of all the bots and fake accounts that have harmed the online service, Trump said of the purchase. “It will be much smaller but better,” he wrote.
Trump’s Twitter account @realDonaldTrump – his chief spokesperson – was blocked from Twitter in January 2021, shortly before his departure as US president. The background was tweets about the storming of the US Capitol in the US capital Washington by supporters of the ex-president. The company justified the move at the time with the “risk of further incitement to violence” by Trump.
Is Trump coming back?
According to media reports, it’s still unclear whether ex-President Trump should regain access to Twitter, but some observers suspect they will. Because Musk had explicitly justified his purchase of Twitter through “healthy” debates on the internet “about a wide range of beliefs” and without wanting to allow censorship. “The bird is free,” said the head of the electric car maker Tesla, referring to the Twitter logo. Critics fear he may encourage hate speech and hate speech that Twitter teams have been fighting for years.
The EU has warned the American billionaire that the online network Twitter, which he has taken over, will have to comply with EU rules in the future. EU Commissioner for Industry Thierry Breton on Friday referred to the recently finally adopted new rules for online platforms, which must, among other things, act against hate messages and false information. “In Europe, the bird flies according to our European rules,” Breton explained in a round-trip on the Musk-Sager.
leadership fired
According to media reports, Elon Musk’s era on Twitter began with executive suite layoffs — after repeatedly criticizing them in recent months. Vijaya Gadde, head of the legal department responsible for the permanent ban on Trump, was also fired. According to information from the financial service Bloomberg, Musk initially wants to take over the main post himself. Only after some time was he able to transfer the work to someone else. Musk is already the head of electric car manufacturer Tesla and its space company SpaceX, among others. He also leads smaller projects such as the tunnel company Boring Company and the research company Neuralink, which develops technologies to directly connect people and computers.
Musk had brokered the acquisition himself, but then tried to get out of the deal, citing allegedly false information about the number of fake accounts on Twitter. Twitter took him to court — and shortly before the trial in the US state of Delaware, Musk agreed to buy Twitter at the originally agreed price. The fact that he made the cessation of the lawsuit a condition created uncertainty until the end.
Source: Krone
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