Banned Twitter Accounts Will Not Be Reinstated Until After Mid-terms

Twitter’s new overlord Elon Musk stated that Trump and those who were previously banned by Twitter will have to wait a few weeks until after the mid-term elections to be reinstated.

Musk said those who violated Twitter rules would not be allowed back on until a process for doing so has been put in place, which would “take at least a few more weeks”.

Twitter's content moderation council will include representatives with widely divergent views, which will certainly include the civil rights community and groups who face hate-fueled violence

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022

And there are MAGA tears in my morning coffee.

New @elonmusk Twitter update:

– Conservatives still being targeted with algorithms, search bans, ghost bans, and deboosting.
– Conservative accounts unfairly suspended still not reinstated.
– New Twitter moderation council filled with far left activists – no real Conservatives.

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) November 2, 2022

Meanwhile, a report by the Election Integrity Partnership, a coalition of bodies that combats digital election interference, gave details of six networks linked to China and Iran that had attempted to manipulate the Twitter platform in the run-up to the US midterms.

All six networks, which have been taken down now by Twitter, were made to appear as if they were operating out of the US. They issued 706,000 tweets, although engagement appeared to be insignificant, with almost 600,000 of those tweets gaining zero likes.

The Guardian