Did Elon Musk Use a Poll to Decide if Trump Could Return to Twitter?

Yes.

By Alec Dent

Nov 21, 2022

The Twitter feed of the President of the USA Donald Trump is seen displayed on a phone screen on August 2, 2020. (Photo Illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Over the weekend, viral posts criticized Twitter owner Elon Musk for using a Twitter poll—through which users vote directly on the platform—to determine if former President Donald Trump could return to Twitter.

so Elon spent six months in court saying Twitter was riddled with bots, was forced to buy the company, said he was going to create a moderation council for all content decisions, and has thrown all that out of the window for a "vox populi" poll that could be easily gamed
— rat king 🐀 (@MikeIsaac) November 20, 2022

Trump was permanently suspended from the social media platform following the riots that occurred at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Twitter determined that two of Trump’s tweets went against the Twitter Glorification of Violence policy and suspended him on January 8. Musk ended this suspension on Friday, and did indeed use a Twitter poll to make the decision.

Reinstate former President Trump
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2022

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