Twitter won’t reinstate banned users without ‘clear process’: Musk

Banned accounts will not be able to return to Twitter until the platform has “a clear process for doing so,” Elon Musk tweeted on Wednesday, providing more clarity on the possible return of the micromessaging social network’s most famous banned user, former US President Donald Trump.

Creating the process would take at least a few more weeks, Musk tweeted.

The new deadline means that Trump will not return in time for the November 8 legislative elections.

Twitter users, advertisers and its own employees have been watching for signs of what it will do. Musk in his first week as owner of Twitter.

Tesla’s chief executive had previously said that Twitter should not permanently ban users and that he would reverse the ban on Trump, who was suspended for risk of further incitement to violence following riots at the US Capitol last year.

Musk’s tweets come after he had a conference call on Tuesday with several civil rights organizations, including Color of Change, the Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP.

During the conversation, Musk pledged to uphold Twitter’s content moderation policies and enforce them to ensure electoral integrity, Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, said in an interview.

Musk also reiterated in his Wednesday tweet that Twitter will create a content moderation council made up of representatives with “very divergent points of view”.

The billionaire expressed during the conversation that he would like civil society groups to join the council, Robinson said, adding that discussions were still at an early stage.

“Actions will speak louder than words,” he said. “The issues discussed at this meeting were just the tip of the iceberg.”