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Former US President Donald Trump says he won’t return to Twitter
various organizations of Human Rights, such as Amnesty International (AI) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have shown their concern about the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet.
AI US Director of Technology and Human Rights, Michael Kleinman, has stated that, regardless of ownership, “Twitter has a responsibility to protect human rights, including the right to live free from discrimination and violence and to freedom of expression and opinion.”
Thus, he has said that the platform “it already fails too often” on the latter. “We are concerned about any steps Twitter may take to erode the enforcement of policies and mechanisms designed to protect users,” he added.
Kleinman has specified that “the last thing we need” is that Twitter “deliberately turn a blind eye” to hate speech against users and, in particular, against women, non-binary people and other groups.
“Amnesty has tracked the disturbing persistence of hate speech on Twitter, especially violent and abusive speech against women and non-binary people. Our 2018 Toxic Twitter report found that the platform failed to live up to its responsibility to protect women’s rights, leading many women to be silenced or censored on the platform,” she said.
The organization has indicated in a statement that in its last report it suggested to Twitter a series of initiatives to combat hate speech and abuse against women, of which only one of them has been implemented.
For its part, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), has noted in its official profile on the platform that “a small handful of private technology companies, including Twitter, play a profound and unique role in enabling our right to express ourselves online.
“We should be concerned that any powerful central player, be it a government or any wealthy person, Even if you are a member of the ACLU, please have as much control over the limits of our political speech online.”
The businessman, owner of Tesla and SpaceX, has said he wants to make the social network is “better than ever” by improving the product, making the algorithms open source, ending spam ‘bots’ and verifying all human users.
For his part, the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, He has acknowledged to the workers that “he does not know” in which direction the platform will go after the purchase of the company, whose transaction could take up to six months to complete.
The CEO of the company has transferred the staff that there will be no job cuts “right now” and, in the face of a potential hiring freeze, Agrawal has noted that they are still working before the deal is officially closed.
Twitter employees have been living in a state of uncertainty for weeks since Musk announced its offer to acquire the social networking service, according to the Bloomberg news agency.
TRUMP SAYS HE WILL NOT GO BACK TO TWITTER
Within the framework of the purchase of the platform by Elon Musk –for a total of 43,394 million dollars (40,495 million euros)– Former US President Donald Trump has assured that he will not return to the platform Not even if the multifaceted businessman who owns Tesla asks for it.
“I’m not going to go on Twitter, I’m going to stay on TRUTH (social network),” Trump told Fox News. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because it will make it better and he’s a good man, but I’ll stay at TRUTH,” according to Bloomberg.
The main social networks vetoed Trump’s accounts as a result of thethe assault on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 and his rhetoric against the legitimacy of the results of the November 2020 presidential elections in which he was defeated by Joe Biden.
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After that, the former president launched a new social networking application called, TruthSocial, It started operating last February. “This week we will begin its rollout in the Apple app store” and “by the end of March it will be fully operational, at least in the United States,” he said.
Truth Social pretends to be the alternative, for example, to that Twitter profile in which Trump once had close to 90 million followers. A platform from which he had been very prolific both in disseminating his policies at the head of the White House and in his attacks and criticism of political rivals, the media, and even the platform itself.