Musk has characterized himself as a First Amendment and free speech advocate for years, for example, in defending himself in a defamation lawsuit after calling a critic a "pedo guy" (Musk won), and to argue that the SEC infringed on his rights in a settlement agreement they struck and revi...
Strossen and other free speech advocates said they're concerned that Musk could use his influence to strike out at his enemies, or make sweeping changes that would help him do so, such as suggesting personnel for the Justice Department. Trump has already said he wants Musk...
So Elon Musk bought Twitter under the guise of protecting free speech. The fact that the 1st Amendment only applies to the government, and Twitter was a publicly traded company was as irrelevant as whether or not Musk even understood the distinction. He’s not a defender of free speech. He...
In the head-spinningElon Muskera of Twitter, edicts come and go, seemingly at the whim of the self-describedchief twit. Just last month, Muskportrayed himselfas a free speech martyr for not banning @ElonJet, a Twitter bot that used publicly available flight records to track the tech billion...
Twitter owner Elon Musk has relinquished the title of CEO, but he is seemingly still the platform’s chief arbiter of rules and content moderation. That much was clear shortly after midnight on Wednesday, when Musk—a supposed “free speech absolutist”—declared in a post that the “words ...
Free Speech and Musk’s Twitter Intro Elon Musk has been known to talk about freedom of expression, but his actions suggest otherwise. For example, Twitter complied with government censorship requests 80% of the time under his leadership, up from 50% before he took over. Musk has also declar...
adventure. But in one sense his turbulent stewardship of the social network has done the rest of the world a favour. In two short months Mr Musk has been through a public crash course in the principles of free speech, neatly demonstrating the trade-offs involved in protecting expression ...
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday in a live-streamed conversation on subjects like artificial intelligence (AI), free speech, and more. Most prominently, the two parties discussed the emerging landscape of AI and how to mitigate potential risks from...
Elon Musk is clashing with a bald, athletically built Supreme Court justice in Brazil over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation on X.
But Musk tweeted Friday that "nothing has changed with content moderation" and said "we did everything we could to appease the activists," without specifying the groups he was alluding to. "Extremely messed up! They're trying to destroy free speech in America," Musk said....