On Twitter’s content moderation policy, Elon Musk’s new ‘clarification’

Twitter boss Elon Musk clarified on Saturday that the social media giant has not yet made any changes to the platform’s content moderation policies – a bone of contention since he acquired the social media giant in a $44 billion deal.

This came hours after he said in a tweet that “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints”, and “no major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes”. In another tweet later, Musk said: “To be super clear, we have not yet made any changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies.”

There is speculation that Musk is looking to do away with permanent bans on Twitter users as he had previously indicated that he felt the platform’s content moderation standards were too strict and that he didn’t believe in lifetime bans.