Musk: Banned Users Won’t Return Until After Midterms

The Daily Beast reports:

Elon Musk vowed early Wednesday that Twitter would not allow any banned accounts back on the site for weeks, meaning that Donald Trump and others will not return to the platform ahead of the midterm elections on Nov. 8. Musk, who completed his $44 billion takeover of Twitter last week, said he is building a content moderation council which will inform how the site enforces bans in future.

Read the full article. Of note, Musk did personally intervene yesterday to allow self-avowed Oath Keeper and Arizona secretary of state nominee Mark Finchem to return.

Twitter will not allow anyone who was de-platformed for violating Twitter rules back on platform until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022