Twitter hadroughly 230 million daily users, according to its most recent earnings report.
He also suggested a laissez-faire approach to content moderation.
“We should allow people to say what they want,” he reportedly told Twitter employees.
Musk plans to take Twitter private.
Neither Twitter nor Musk’s lawyer responded to requests for comment.
Musk has said he wants to purchase Twitter to safeguard free speech, a term he uses vaguely.
The First Amendment to the US Constitution protects speech only from government censorship.
Private companies such as Twitter can make their own rules about what is permitted on their services.
Twitter permanently suspended Trump for violating Twitter’s rules against glorifying violence after the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot.
Musk has said that a lower price isn’t out of the question.
Twitter has signaled that it plans to move forward with the current deal.
He also reportedly praised Chinese social media apps WeChat and TikTok during Thursday’s call.
Twitter could integrate payments into its app so people could send money, Musk reportedly told Twitter employees.
The comment reportedly perplexed many attendees of the call.
However, he shared no thoughts on what his title might be if the deal is completed.
CNET’s Carrie Mihalcik contributed to this report.
