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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Kari Paul and Alex Hern

Twitter braces for Donald Trump’s return as Elon Musk takes over platform

A screenshot of Donald Trump's Twitter page
Musk has said that as Twitter’s owner he would lift the ban on Donald Trump, contending that kicking the ex-US president off the site ‘alienated a large part of the country’. Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images

Hate speech and misinformation experts are bracing for the return of Donald Trump to the platform, as Elon Musk completes his acquisition of Twitter.

The social media site permanently removed Trump in January 2021, saying the former president’s tweets were “highly likely to encourage and inspire people to replicate the criminal acts that took place at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021”.

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