Elon Musk announces content moderation council for Twitter

Elon Musk has officially bought Twitter and with it, has brought a host of changes along with him to the social media platform. 

Shortly after assuming control of the company, Musk fired a bunch of high profile executives, including Chief Executive Officer, Parag Agarwal; Chief Financial Officer, Ned Segal; General Counsel, Sean Edgett; including the Head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde.

Importantly, Gadde was one of the key decision makers who gave the go ahead to suspend the Twitter account of former US President Donald Trump in the aftermath of the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill. At the time, Musk was critical of the decision. Following the completion of the deal, both Agarwal and Gadde were escorted out of the Twitter office by security.

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Now, Musk has said that he will add a content moderation council which will oversee what he called “diverse viewpoints”. He added that no content decisions or account reinstatements would be done until the council made the decision. 

Here is the full statement from Musk on Twitter:

“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.”

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The billionaire’s statement comes just after his acquisition of the company. The CEO of Tesla had earlier stated that he wants to “defeat” spam bots on Twitter after months of accusing the social media company of not doing enough about the very issue. In addition, he has said that he wants to make the algorithms that determine how content is shown to people public as well as prevent the platform from becoming an echo chamber of hate and division.

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Musk also publicly released a statement explaining why he had bought the company which he said was because he believes it to be “important to the future of civilisation”.