Elon Musk’s X lawyers to defend student facing discipline from University of Illinois over social posts
Musk is delivering on a promise he made in August to put his money where his mouth is on free speech.
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Elon Musk tells Joe Rogan he still believes George Soros ‘fundamentally hates humanity’
'Getting DAs elected who refuse to prosecute crime; that's part of the problem in San Francisco and L.A. and a bunch of other cities,' Musk said of George Soros.
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Elon Musk blasts ‘death cult’ of far-left ‘extinctionists’ who view ‘humanity as a plague’
The billionaire X owner said the ‘old Twitter’ had been used as an ‘arm of the government' as well as a ‘far-left information weapon’ that spread an extinctionist ‘mind virus’ worldwide.
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Conservatives, free speech advocates urge Elon Musk to support victims of government censorship
‘Given your commitment to free speech and unrivaled capacity to effect change, we ask that you harness X to make clear that no one should be punished under the law for peaceful expression on X or any platform.’
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Elon Musk slams leftist rating group NewsGuard as ‘scam’ that ‘should be disbanded immediately’
Musk responded to a post on X, formerly Twitter, by a former Trump State Department official who pointed to the connection between NewsGuard and the European Union's new 'disinformation code,' the Digital Services Act.
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Former Twitter ‘safety’ chief involved in banning Trump complains about limitations to censorship
Yoel Roth laments that letting users have freer conversations has actually stopped conversations.
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‘Tech justice’ group wants social networks to do more to control information for 2024 election
A simple lack of manpower may reduce the amount of online speech Big Tech is able to regulate.
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Elon Musk promotes video montage exposing false media narratives about COVID vaccines
‘How many other people out there have symptoms that are actually from the vaccine or COVID treatment, rather than COVID itself?’ Musk asked.
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UN wants to ‘massively ramp up’ efforts against climate ‘misinformation’: spokeswoman
‘We do feel like we are in an information war and that we need to massively ramp up our response,’ Melissa Fleming said.
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Elon Musk faces backlash for removing ability to block users on X; UPDATE
Users say Twitter/X may be removing their most effective means of protecting themselves from online trolls.
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