Some of Elon Musk’s new policies for the social media platform now known as X have critics fearing it will return to Twitter’s censorious past, especially as the 2024 presidential election approaches.
Aaron Terr, director of public advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, is sounding the alarm about Musk’s regime at the company.
“Musk hasn’t lived up to his stated commitment to free speech,” Terr told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“If he truly wants to make it a haven for free speech, he needs to take a hard look at the platform’s content moderation policies and practices.”
Many have pointed to Musk’s recent choice of Linda Yaccarino as his replacement CEO of X — formerly known as Twitter — as the start of the downhill trend for free speech on the platform.
Once a vocal advocate and self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, @elonmusk has become increasingly silent on these issues.
Has Linda Yaccarino, a left-leaning WEF member, become the new arbiter of free speech on the platform? It’s not looking good. pic.twitter.com/Hymhj413sw
— Larry Alex Taunton (@LarryTaunton) September 5, 2023
Yaccarino recently offered users “Freedom of Speech, Not Freedom of Reach” within a summary of the platform’s supposedly reformed policies — an approach that some fear censors will use to diminish and minimize the spread of targeted content.
“Restricting the reach of Tweets, also known as visibility filtering, is one of our existing enforcement actions that allows us to move beyond the binary “leave up versus take down” approach to content moderation,” the platform said in explaining its policies.
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