López Obrador asks Elon Musk to reactivate Donald Trump’s Twitter account

The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorurged the social network on Monday Twitter to “repair the damage” which in his opinion represented the suspension of the account of the former US president Donald Trump in 2021 and was hopeful that Elon Musk “release” this digital platform.

The president criticized Twitter and Facebook for canceling the Republican’s accounts as a result of his allegations of electoral fraud after losing the 2020 elections, amid serious protests from his followers, which led to one of the biggest institutional crises in the neighboring country. in decades.

“Now that this very rich man, Musk, has bought Twitter, I hope he will free him,” said López Obrador in his usual daily press conference. “And if we’re already talking about this, the damage has to be repaired that was caused when President Trump’s account was terminated,” he added.

Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet, became the owner of the company last week, where layoffs of high-ranking executives were later announced.

Musk also posted a message that stated that “The bird is released”in an apparent nod to his desire for the firm to have fewer limits on what is published on the social network.

Trump said Friday that he was glad Twitter was in “safe hands” after Musk formally took over, but did not indicate whether he would return to his account on the platform that banned him.

The chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Inc., which closed the $44 billion takeover of Twitter, has said he wants to prevent hate speech on the platform, “defeat” bots and make public the algorithms that define dissemination of content.