New Twitter policy! Elon Musk says Hate tweets will be demonetised, deboosted

San Francisco: Elon Musk has been trying to revamp Twitter ever since he took control of the microblogging site.

In a series of tweets, the billionaire said the new Twitter policy is freedom of speech and not freedom of reach, pointing out that “hate tweets” will be max deboosted. This means Twitter will minimise how many users see ‘hate speech’ and also how many ads appear alongside it.

“Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted and demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet,” Musk said, adding that this applies just to the individual tweet, not the whole account.

He also announced that Twitter plans to restore several controversial accounts that had previously been banned or suspended, but added that the company has not yet made a decision about the account of former President Donald Trump.

The new content moderation policy was announced amid resignation of employees, including engineers. Twitter also closed its offices till Monday to avoid confusion over which people still have access to the company property, reports said.