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In an all-hands meeting with Twitter\u2019s staff on Thursday, Elon Musk gave more detail on how he would deal with moderation on the platform, leaving the door open for a more hands-on approach than many have assumed he would take. <\/p>\n

Responding to an employee-submitted question about his views on content moderation, Musk said he believed people should be able to \u201csay pretty outrageous things within the law\u201d but that such speech shouldn\u2019t necessarily be amplified, according to employees who heard the remarks. In particular, he leaned on a distinction between freedom of speech and freedom of reach, popularized by disinformation researcher Ren\u00e9e DiResta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reiterating past comments he has made publicly, Musk also said he wants Twitter to take a harder line against bots and spam, saying that \u201cit needs to be much more expensive to have a troll army.\u201d He told employees he is in favor of having users pay to be verified and prioritizing them in how Twitter ranks the tweets people see.<\/p>\n

Musk has been outspoken in his criticism of Twitter\u2019s moderation of conservatives on the platform, particularly the decision to ban former President Donald Trump<\/a> in the wake of the January 6th riot. In an interview with the Financial Times<\/em> in May, Musk said he would likely reverse the ban on Trump if the acquisition is successful. More recently, he expressed concerns that the platform was not acting aggressively enough in response to harassment against the Libs of TikTok account<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But speaking to Twitter staff, he took a softer line, holding to the basic principle of Twitter as a platform for self-expression. \u201cSome people use their hair to express themselves,\u201d he told the staff. \u201cI use Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n