Twitter takeover: Musk won't reinstate banned accounts for weeks, including Trump

Musk says Twitter won’t reinstate banned accounts for weeks. The decision affects Donald Trump, among others.

In a tweet, Musk said that Twitter will not allow anyone back on the platform until there is a clear process to do so, and that he had met with civil rights and activist leaders about his intentions.

Twitter will “continue to combat hate & harassment & enforce its election integrity policies,” he tweeted.

According to reports, Elon Musk has sought help from Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-origin technology executive, to revamp the newly-owned Twitter platform.

Krishnan, who used to work at Twitter earlier, has been a general partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital Andreessen Horowitz.

Krishnan has created and overseen various mobile ad projects for Snapchat and Facebook.

Hateful content has skyrocketed since Elon Musk closed the $44 billiondeal.

According to Network Contagion Research Institute, which identifies "cyber-social threats", the use of the n-word has increased by nearly 500 per cent on Twitter.

A coalition of more than 40 advocacy organizations including the NAACP and Free Press sent an open letter to Twitter's top 20 advertisers on Tuesday, asking them to pull their ads if Musk guts content moderation on the platform.

Accodring to CNBC, engineers and other employees at Twitter have been told to work 12 hours a day and 7 days a week to meet the tight November deadline set by ‘Chief Twit’ Elon Musk.

The employees have not been promised compensatory time, pay for overtime or even job security. 

Musk has authorised employees from his other companies to work at Twitter, a report in CNBC reopirts quoting internal documents.

These include 50 employees from Tesla, mostly from the Autopilot team, two from the Boring Company and one from Neuralink, the outlet further said, adding that it reviewed internal documents