Owner of Twitter, Ilon MuskIt said on Friday that it had reinstated some banned accounts on the social network, but said no decision had been made on whether to re-enter the former US president. Donald Trumpet.

Musk tweeted the comedian’s accounts Kathy GriffinPsychologist Jordan Peterson and a site for conservative parodies Babylon bee “They have been reinstated”, but “the decision on Trump has not yet been made”.

Trump was kicked off the platform after his supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, to prevent his Democratic rival Joe Biden’s election certification.

In early November, Twitter suspended the account of actress Kathy Griffin after she changed her profile name to Elon Musk. “In future, Any Twitter user who engages in a spoof without clearly stating “parody” will be permanently banned“, explained the tycoon and said that he wants to transform the social network “The most secure source of information in the world.” In 2017, Kathy Griffin was fired from the network CNN After showing an image of a severed head that closely resembled President Trump.

On July 1, Twitter suspended the prolific clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson After she tweeted about the surgery on actress Elliott Page, formerly known as Ellen Page and star of the award-winning film. June. The social network warned Peterson at the time that he had violated its “hateful conduct” code.

And on March 22, Twitter suspended the account Bee of Babylon After a post about Rachel Levin, a transgender official in Joe Biden’s administration, was deemed “hateful.”

Musk asked Twitter’s software engineers to report to the office

On Friday, Elon Musk sent an email to Twitter employees asking any employee who develops software codes Report to the 10th floor of the company’s San Francisco office at 2:00 p.m. local time, according to a memo reviewed by the agency. Reuters.

“There will be short technical interviews that will allow me to better understand the technological functionality of Twitter,” Musk wrote in the email.

The billionaire said, “I would appreciate it if you could come to San Francisco for a personal meeting,” adding that he would be at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters until midnight and return Saturday morning.

Musk ordered employees to email him about what his software code had “achieved” in the past six months. “With up to 10 screenshots of the most prominent lines of code.”

He added that he would try to talk to remote workers via video. Musk also said that only people who cannot physically make it to the company’s headquarters or have a family emergency will be exempt.

(According to AFP and Reuters)

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