“The people have spoken. Amnesty begins next week. Vox Populi,Vox Dei,” Musk tweeted using a Latin phrase meaning “the voice of the people,the voice of God”.
Musk used the same expression after posting a similar poll last weekend before reinstating the account of former president Donald Trump,which Twitter had banned for encouraging the Capitol insurrection on January 6,2021.
Trump has said he won’t return to Twitter but has not deleted his account.
Such online polls are anything but scientific and can easily be influenced by bots.
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Since buying Twitter,the billionaire chief executive has also reinstated a number of other accounts including Christian news satire site Babylon Bee and Canadian self-help author Jordan Peterson.
In the month since Musk took over,groups that monitor the platform for racist,anti-Semitic and other toxic speech say hate been on the rise on the world’s de facto public square. That has included a surge in racist abuse of World Cup soccer players that Twitter is allegedly failing to act on.