Elon Musk said Friday he’s forming a council to oversee Twitter’s content moderation decisions a day after he acquired the firm for $44 billion.
The Tesla CEO said that Twitter would form the council with “widely diverse viewpoints.” He did not provide any names or a timeframe.
“No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes,” Musk wrote. His Twitter post did not say what accounts, if any, would be reinstated.
Musk has long been critical of the company’s content moderation policies, accusing the firm of exhibiting a left-wing bias in its decisions. Reports on Thursday indicated that Musk fired Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and other top executives, including Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s general counsel and the head of its content moderation. There has been speculation that Gadde was the individual who was ultimately responsible for former President Donald Trump’s deplatforming from Twitter….