OPINION: Under Elon Musk’s ownership, the platform has routinely used every tool at its disposal to push back on critics.
amount of content takedown requests, many of them from authoritarian regimes.
Musk’s “free speech” era is also marked with a lack of transparency on the site, making it difficult for public interest researchers and users to gain visibility into X’s practices and how they shape the platform.on government censorship requests to the Lumen project—a public-facing database of government demands made to tech companies, based at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center.since Musk’s takeover.
Taken together, Musk’s efforts to silence critics and the lack of transparency on the site create worrisome implications for both the 2024 U.S. presidential election and free expression globally.
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