Things are actually going off the rails at Twitter, as Elon Musk pushes ahead in a hostile takeover that appears liable to make sure he’s finally the one one left on the social media platform. In the newest set of deeply complicated declarations from the multi-CEO and “Chief Twit,” Musk reinstated Twitter accounts for the right-wing “parody” outlet the Babylon Bee, Jordan Peterson, and Kathy Griffin.

Musk introduced the reinstatements after a cryptic post merely saying “Freedom Fridays.” He additionally paired the information with a complicated clarification of how content material moderation on Twitter will supposedly function shifting ahead. “New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach,” he wrote. “Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter.”

Note: the beneath Tweet misspells Kathy Griffin’s identify.

Musk didn’t un-ban Donald Trump, writing a “decision has not yet been made” about whether or not or to not enable the previous poster-in-chief again on the location. He additionally stated he would not allow conspiracy theorist Alex Jones again on the platform, in one other tweet alternate. Though, like all of Musk’s guarantees—who is aware of how lengthy it is going to final.

The sudden Twitter ban reversals beg the query: What occurred to Musk’s beforehand introduced plan to sort out reinstatements? Less than a month in the past, the world’s richest man tweeted that, beneath his management, Twitter would kind and depend on a “content moderation council.” “No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes,” he wrote in an Oct. 28 post.

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Yet seemingly, Freedom Friday went forward with no such council in place. And it’s abundantly attainable that there merely aren’t sufficient workers left at Twitter to compose one. Initial layoffs slashed about 50% of the corporate, and extra engineers and execs have fled since.

Among different questions that Gizmodo had associated to Friday’s announcement:

• What is a “negative tweet?”
• Who decides that?
• Who (or what algorithm) can be monitoring for these “negative tweets” to “deboost” them—and the way?
• Will there be an official shadowban council?

Gizmodo additionally isn’t positive, precisely, how single tweets will be “demonetized.” Twitter doesn’t generate income instantly off of particular person tweets, however reasonably paid posts by advertisers (and, uh, Twitter Blue subscribers). Unless Musk is speaking about disallowing offensive advertisements (which presumably already aren’t allowed), that is seemingly simply phrase salad, devoid of any precise useful coverage shift.

Unfortunately, although Gizmodo has reached out with the entire above inquiries to Twitter’s press account, we don’t anticipate to obtain a response. Since Musk’s buy of the corporate was finalized, Twitter has not been responding to our press inquiries. Press contacts from different firms run by Musk, like SpaceX and Tesla, are additionally notoriously tough for media to succeed in.