Elon Musk Holds A Opinion To Restore Donald Trump's Twitter Account

Donald Trump. (Wikimedia Commons/The White House)

JAKARTA - After returning three controversial accounts, now Twitter CEO Elon Musk plans to restore the account of former President of the United States (US) Donald Trump.

But before that, he first asked more than 116 million of his followers on Twitter whether Trump's account should be restored on the social media site.

Based on VOI's monitoring on Saturday, November 19, of the remaining 20 hours, the poll has garnered more than 4.7 million votes with about 56 percent of respondents voting yes, and 44 percent of those who voted were not recorded.

The Twitter boss accompanied him with the words, "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" which is a Latin phrase which means the voice of the people is the voice of God.

Reinstate former President Trump

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2022

As previously reported, Musk said yesterday no decision had been made on Trump's account, but he restored Jordan Peterson's controversial account and the Babylon Bee satirical site, including comedian Kathy Griffin.

Trump is permanently banned from Twitter in 2021 due to the risk of further incitement to violence related to the riots at the Capitol Building, USA, during the country's presidential election. Trump at the time had more than 80 million followers on the platform.

Before deciding to buy Twitter, Musk said he would overturn the platform's "stupid" ban on Trump if he took over the company.

"The permanent ban should be very rare and completely reserved for bot or spam accounts, scam accounts. I don't think it's true to ban Donald Trump," Musk said in May quoted by SkyNews.

"I think it was a mistake to isolate most of the country and in the end it did not result in Donald Trump having no voice."

While Musk does have a history of his followers polling about everything he wants to make for his social media, from editing buttons to Twitter, to selling shares at Tesla.