Questions have been raised about what path Elon Musk will take Twitter after the Tesla and SpaceX CEO bought the social media website for $44 billion.
Musk, the world's richest man and frequent person of Twitter, spoke about his want for the platform to change into a "digital city sq." the place free speech just isn't restricted in a press release confirming the takeover.
There have been issues about whether or not which means that Musk will reduce on content material moderation insurance policies at the moment in place on Twitter and switch the positioning right into a extra controversial "free speech" social media platform like Parler or Gab—and that fewer restrictions may pave a means for individuals who have been banned from Twitter to return.
Beneath, Newsweek has compiled a listing of figures who've had their accounts completely suspended by Twitter for violating their phrases and situations who could also be provided a return to the positioning below Musk's possession.
Donald Trump
Trump was completely banned from Twitter on January 8, 2021, two days after the riot on the U.S. Capitol, over issues he would use the platform to incite additional violence.
Trump tweeted that the 75 million individuals who voted for him within the 2020 presidential election, which he falsely claimed was rigged, would "not be disrespected or handled unfairly in any means, form or kind!!!"
Trump then tweeted that he wouldn't be attending the inauguration ceremony of President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021. Twitter stated that the second tweet from Trump may very well be seen as "encouragement to these probably contemplating violent acts that the Inauguration can be a secure goal, as he is not going to be attending."
Twitter stated the 2 tweets would seemingly "encourage others to duplicate the violent acts that befell on January 6, 2021" and banned Trump from the platform.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
The Georgia congresswoman's private Twitter account was completely suspended on January 2 for "repeated violations" of its COVID misinformation coverage.
Greene had posted quite a few false statements concerning vaccines and the pandemic, together with wrongly claiming that there had been "extraordinarily excessive quantities of Covid vaccine deaths."
Greene's official Congressional account, @RepMTG, was not suspended and stays energetic.
Steve Bannon
The previous White Home adviser below Trump had his @WarRoomPandemic account faraway from Twitter in November 2020 for violating the positioning's ban on "the glorification of violence."
In a reside stream of his Battle Room present that he shared on Twitter, Bannon prompt White Home chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray must be beheaded.
"I might put the heads on pikes. Proper. I might put them on the two corners of the White Home. As a warning to federal bureaucrats: Both get with this system otherwise you're gone," Bannon stated.
Alex Jones
The conspiracy theorist had his private account and that of his InfoWars present completely suspended in September 2018 for various tweets that violated Twitter's abusive conduct coverage.
The ban arrived after Jones posted a collection of movies of him harassing Fb COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as they testified in entrance of the Senate. Across the similar time, Jones was additionally banned from different websites comparable to Spotify, Fb and YouTube for violating their hate speech insurance policies.
David Duke
The white supremacist and former chief of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was banned from Twitter for a number of violations of the corporate's hateful conduct coverage in July 2020.
Roger Stone
The longtime Trump ally was banned from Twitter completely in October 2017 over a collection of tweets by which he threatened CNN reporters, together with telling Jake Tapper that he should be "held accountable for his lies and really severely punished."
Mike Lindell
The MyPillow CEO and frequent pusher of the false claims that Trump misplaced the 2020 election because of widespread voter fraud had his account banned in January 2021 because of "repeated violations" of its civic integrity coverage. Lindell's ban arrived as Twitter moved to fight misinformation spreading on the positioning.
Lin Wooden
The professional-Trump lawyer turned QAnon supporter and conspiracy theorist had his account briefly suspended final January 6 for allegedly inciting violence and calling for Mike Pence to be executed amid the assault on the Capitol.
Wooden had two of his everlasting accounts completely suspended the next day after he stated he would avert the ban by posting elsewhere. Twitter stated Wooden was in violation of the platform's rule on "ban evasion."
Michael Flynn/Sidney Powell
Two extra members of Trump's interior circles who're advocates of the unconventional QAnon motion had their accounts eliminated on January 8, 2021, after Twitter vowed to completely droop accounts which might be "solely devoted to sharing QAnon content material."
Milo Yiannopoulos
The alt-right character was banned from Twitter in July 2016 for serving to to orchestrate mass racist on-line assaults in opposition to Ghostbusters star and Saturday Night time Stay comic Leslie Jones.
Aubrey Huff
The baseball star had his account eliminated in October 2021 for repeated violations of its COVID-19 deceptive data coverage. Previously, Huff additionally made different inflammatory feedback on Twitter, together with threatening violence if Senator Bernie Sanders was elected president and suggesting individuals ought to kidnap Iranian ladies.
James O'Keefe
The founding father of the conservative group Challenge Veritas was banned from Twitter in April 2021 for utilizing a number of pretend accounts to "artificially amplify or disrupt conversations" in violation of the platform's guidelines in opposition to manipulation and spam.
Jacob Wohl
The precise-wing conspiracy theorist was completely suspended from Twitter in October 2019 creating and working a number of pretend accounts.
Laura Loomer
The far-right activist was banned in November 2018 for breaking Twitter's guidelines in opposition to hateful conduct after sending tweets to Minnesota Consultant Ilhan Omar in regards to the Muslim congresswoman's religion.
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