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Elon Musk Makes Decision On What He Will Do With Banned Accounts

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New Twitter CEO Elon Musk has made a decision regarding accounts that have been permanently banned on the platform.

“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes,” the CEO said in a tweet.

Musk said in a message to advertisers that the platform will be safe for free speech but there will still be moderation.

“The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence. There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society,” he said.

“That said, Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences,” he said.

But on Sunday he showed how things have changed when he trolled form Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after she tweeted about the attack on Paul Pelosi.

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“The Republican Party and its mouthpieces now regularly spread hate and deranged conspiracy theories. It is shocking, but not surprising, that violence is the result. As citizens, we must hold them accountable for their words and the actions that follow,” she said.

Musk responded to her with a link to a website that shared a baseless conspiracy theory that Paul Pelosi got injured because he was drunk, which is provably not true, and that he met his attacker in a gay bar.

“There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye,” the CEO said.

The evidence points to the attack on Paul Pelosi being a targeted political attack by David DePape, who believed and shared many conspiracy theories.

But Musk was not the only person to troll the tweet.

“You and your husband created this environment by relentlessly attacking your political opponents. You’re still doing it for God sakes. The Republican Party had nothing to do with this and you know it,” Buzz Patterson said.

“1. Assailant in his underpants 2. Paul Pelosi knows his name and tells police he’s a “friend.” 3. Assailant asks “where’s Nancy?” to make sure she’s not home. 4. Pelosi takes bathroom break from spat and makes 911 call Conclusion: This guy was a sex partner or male prostitute!” conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza said.

And while there is no evidence that any of these theories are true, there is also no evidence that DePape identified with the Republican Party.

Others were furious with Musk.

“it has been interesting, over the years, to watch you blossom from the electric car guy into a fully-formed piece of shit,” Jimmy Kimmel said.

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“Elon Musk is already spreading dangerous lies on the platform he owns,” Kyle Griffin said.

“This exchange between @HillaryClinton and @elonmusk should kill any remaining confidence advertisers had in the platform,” Molly Jong-Fast said.

“Not good, @elonmusk: already using the platform to push unfounded conspiracy theories to your 112 million followers?” Carla Marinucci said.

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More harrowing information about the attack on Paul Pelosi has been revealed and it is disturbing.

During the 911 call that Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker of the House and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, made, he referred to his attacker as a “friend,” The Daily Mail reported.

Pelosi as talking in code to the 911 operator as to not agitate his attacker, David DePape, but the operator knew something was amiss when Pelosi said to his attacker “What’s going on? Why are you here? What are you doing to me?”

The operator is then heard contacting police and saying “’He states there is a male in the home and that he is going to wait for his wife. He stated that he doesn’t know who the male is but that his name is David and that he is a friend. He sounded somewhat confused.”

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