The new owner of the social network, Elon Musk, had already rehabilitated Donald Trump’s profile a few days ago, although the former president refuses to return
“The amnesty will take effect next week.” So powerful was the new owner of Twitter, the billionaire Elon Musk, in his profile of the social network that he uses as a speaker for his communication. Accounts that had been banned in recent years for inciting violence or spreading false messages (among other things) will be reinstated from next week after Musk conducted a poll on the platform itself in which 72% of users (3 million participants) voted in favor this social amnesty: “The people have spoken,” Musk said on his Twitter profile.
The most controversial account to be banned by Twitter was that of former US President Donald Trump, who was banned from the platform following the January 2021 attack on the Capitol. But he won’t have to wait until next week to see his account reinstated, as Twitter had already reinstated the former president’s profile on Nov. 20 after Musk held another public consultation on the platform in which he won the “yes.” albeit with only 51.8% of the vote (7.8 out of 15 million participants). “People have spoken. Trump is reinstated,” the businessman tweeted on his account following the poll results.
A few minutes after his message, Trump’s account – the last tweet of which dates from January 8, 2021 – was visible again. The number of followers, which seems to have started from scratch again, is already around 87.7 million this Friday. At the moment, the former president has not written anything on his Twitter profile.
Musk, also CEO of Tesla, also just announced that he will be relaunching the platform’s payment verification service, which costs $8, this Friday after announcing it a few days ago and later pulling back. The businessman announced that instead of the blue verified user symbol, there will be a gold symbol for companies, a gray one for governments and a blue one for people, whether famous or not.
The platform is not what it used to be on a business level. Since Musk acquired the social network for $ 44,000 million, the workforce has been significantly reduced. When he bought the company, it had about 7,500 employees, while today it is estimated that there are only 2,700 after the mass layoffs (3,700 people) hundreds of other employees decided to leave on Musk’s orders.
In an email, their new boss gave the workers 36 hours to decide whether to continue with the company. Specifically, they had to determine within that period – without further details about the future of the company – whether they were willing to work “extremely hard”, including more overtime, weekends and full nights, to show their genuine commitment to the company. . If not, the only option was to leave his post.
Source: La Verdad
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