ELON Musk has rebuffed circulating claims that he purchased Twitter at the request of former President Donald Trump.
The billionaire purchased Twitter on April 25, 2022, for $44billion, making the social media platform a private company.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the richest man on Earth and used his fortunes to purchase Twitter in April.
He hopes to make bolster free speech on the platform and in a statement, he called it "the bedrock of a functioning democracy."
Musk said during a TED interview he believed there should be “an inclusive arena for free speech,” adding, “Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square."
His comments raised the question if former President Donald Trump, who was banned from the platform after the January 6 Insurrection in 2021, will be reinstated under Musk's ownership.
Musk did not confirm if Trump's Twitter account would be reinstated, but he said the platform should "be very cautious with permanent bans."
David Nunes, the boss of Trump's media platform Truth Social, claimed that Musk had purchased Twitter at the request of the former President, a claim that Musk has since denied.
In an appearance on Fox Business Network, Nunes said, "President Trump, basically before Elon Musk bought it, actually said to go and buy it because the goal of our company is really to build a community where people are in a family-friendly, safe environment."
Nunes added, “That’s why we...
Djibouti hosts a US naval base called Camp Lemonnier, the only American military facility of its kind in Africa. Amid a fragile ceasefire in the Middle East war, a clip circulating in Ethiopia sho...