Elon Musk recently inked a $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter.Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said Tuesday he would reverse Twitter’s ban on former U.S. President Donald Trump, while speaking at the Financial Times Future of the Car conference.Musk, who has called himself a “free speech absolutist,” recently inked a $44 billion deal to acquire the social media platform.The decision to ban Trump from Twitter did not silence the former president’s voice, but rather amplified his views among people on the political right, Musk said, calling the ban “morally wrong and flat-out stupid.”Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter shortly after the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol. Twitter cited “the risk of further incitement of violence” in its decision.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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