WASHINGTON, Sept 27 — With incendiary, misleading posts to his 200 million followers, Elon Musk has courted criticism for cranking up the political temperature ahead of an...
‘We don’t want them to pay for our funerals...’: At Pepper Estate in Penang, residents fear falling trees and want authorities to act nowA file photograph shows Elon Musk ’s X account blocked, after Brazil's telecommunications regulator suspended the social network in the country.
Musk has amplified debunked falsehoods from politicians, including Trump, that Democrats are “importing” migrants into the United States to vote in the November election and that immigrants from Haiti in Ohio were killing and eating pets. Musk also faced criticism for sharing a deepfake video in which a voiceover mimicking Harris calls Biden senile and declares that she does not “know the first thing about running the country.”
“What is happening with Musk these days on Twitter/X feels similar: his posts are not just seen on the site, but they also seem to be getting a lot of pickup in the media.” He has gutted trust and safety teams, scaled back content moderation efforts, and restored known conspiracy theorists to the platform, making it what researchers call a cesspool of disinformation.
Musk appeared to capitulate last week, with the company’s lawyers saying that X had complied with the orders.
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