• Trump's account was reactivated last week, according to Musk.
• Trump Media & Technology Group created Truth Social.
• Musk's first few weeks as Twitter's owner have been characterised by change and mayhem.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, said on Friday that Twitter's decision to ban then-President Donald Trump following his supporters' attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was a 'grave mistake' that needed to be fixed.

 He clarified, though, that encouraging violence would still be against the rules on the platform. The most important point is that Twitter admits that it made a severe mistake when it banned his account, even though there was no violation of the rules or of the terms of service.

 Deplatforming the president while he was still in office damaged Twitter's reputation among the majority of Americans. The reactivation of Trump's account was announced by Musk last week after a slim majority of respondents to a Twitter poll favoured doing so. 

But Trump declared that he was not interested in returning to Twitter. He declared that he would keep using his own social media platform, the Truth Social app developed by Trump Media & Technology Group. 

Trump, a Republican who just announced he would run for office again in 2024, was previously banned from Twitter on January 8, 2021. Twitter announced that he had been permanently suspended after the Capitol was stormed because of the potential for him to incite more violence. 

As lawmakers were certifying the outcomes of the November 2020 presidential election, which Democrat Joe Biden won, the Capitol was attacked after weeks of false claims by Trump that he had won. Trump frequently asserted on Twitter and other social media that there had been widespread voter fraud, and he urged supporters to protest in front of the Washington, D.C., Capitol.

 The attack is being investigated by a congressional committee and US prosecutors. Musk asserted that Trump's account was suspended because he did not violate any Twitter rules. Twitter asked for a response on Friday regarding Musk's assertion, but Twitter took some time to do so.

 Musk tweeted earlier on Friday that inciting violence or making threats of violence on the site will result in suspension, contradicting what he said on Thursday that Twitter would offer a 'universal amnesty' to terminated accounts that had not broken the law or sent spam.