✕ Close Elon Musk arrives at Twitter HQ carrying actual kitchen sink amid $44bn purchase
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The Elon Musk era at Twitter has officially begun.
On Friday, a day after reportedly firing top executives including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and legal chief Vijaya Gadde, the billionaire revealed that banned accounts like that of former president Donald Trump would not immediately be reinstated.
He said the social media company would be setting up a “content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints” to consider which accounts to allow back.
Earlier Mr Musk tweeted that “the bird is freed”.
This after the billionaire bizarrely arrived on Wednesday at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters carrying a kitchen sink ahead of closing his $44bn deal to purchase the micro-blogging site.
Mr Musk reportedly told Twitter employees during his visit that he does not plan to cut 75 per cent of the staff after acquiring the company.
Many Twitter users have taken the opportunity to tweet racial slurs in ‘celebration’ of Mr Musk’s takeover, believing it will come with less content moderation.