Twitter lifts Donald Trump ban after Elon Musk’s poll

‘The people have spoken,’ says site’s owner, having acknowledged during online poll that automated bots were voting too

Elon Musk has reinstated Donald Trump’s Twitter account after users on the social media platform

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voted by a slim majority to lift a ban on the former US president.

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Trump’s account was suspended in 2021 after the January 6 Capitol riot

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for violating Twitter guidelines and because of the risk of “further incitement of violence”.

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The account appeared to be live on Sunday, although the former president had yet to post to the more than 70 million users following him.

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His last tweet was on 8 January 2021, in which he declared he would not attend Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th president of the US.

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