Prior to the US midterm elections the following week, Elon Musk said on Wednesday that the former president Donald Trump's Twitter account will not be reinstated, addressing one of the largest questions that remained after his acquisition of the social media firm.

According to Musk, who made the announcement early on Wednesday morning, "Twitter will not allow anyone who was de-platformed for violating Twitter rules back on platform until we have a clear mechanism for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks." Prior to the establishment of the "content moderation council," the billionaire owner of Twitter had stated that no significant content choices would be made.

Musk had promised to change at least some of the platform's content moderation standards and get rid of permanent account suspensions before last week's acquisition of Twitter. Additionally, he had made it clear that he would reinstate Trump's personal account, which had been suspended shortly after the US Capitol uprising on January 6.

Trump has said he is delighted Twitter is now in "sane hands" following the Musk takeover but said he would not be returning to the network. Trump previously used Twitter to manufacture news, attack opponents, and set the agenda in DC. He intends to continue using Truth Social, his own social media platform. On Twitter, Trump has millions more followers than he did on Truth Social.

Musk is attempting to convince users and advertisers, who provide 90% of Twitter's revenue, that the social media site won't turn into a "free-for-all hellscape" with his comments about delaying action on Trump and other banned accounts. Musk is also making a concerted effort to increase Twitter's revenue, potentially through a subscription service, after incurring a hefty debt load to cover the $44 billion acquisition.

The human rights community and organizations that deal with hate-motivated violence will undoubtedly be represented on Twitter's content moderation council, according to Musk in a subsequent post on Wednesday.

Since Musk became the network's owner and de-facto CEO, there has been an increase in hate speech and other harmful content, which has outraged civil society organizations and made some advertisers reconsider their usage of the platform.

Musk wrote in a thread of tweets on Wednesday that he had met with representatives of the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, Color of Change, the Asian American Foundation, and other organizations to talk about "how Twitter will continue to combat hate & harassment & enforce its election integrity policies."

The firm has been "focused on addressing the spike in abusive activity on Twitter," according to Twitter's head of safety and integrity Yoel Roth, who made the statement on the platform on Tuesday. More than 1500 accounts have been deleted, and the number of impressions on this content has almost completely disappeared. The policies of Twitter have not altered since the takeover, according to Musk and Roth.