Musk’s promises to shepherd Twitter into a new era of radical free speech are looking phonier by the day.
Another authoritarian democracy, Turkey, has been the most prolific submitter of requests to Twitter during Musk’s tenure, and they’ve been overwhelmingly fulfilled. Under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country has passed multiple rounds of laws restricting speech in recent years. Experts say the government viewsThe Lumen data alone doesn’t necessarily mean Musk isfriendlier to countries looking to crack down on free speech compared to his predecessors.
Still, given where a lot of the requests are coming from, and the many recent high-profile examples of Twitter siding with governments quashing political dissent, it’s evident that Musk has failed to fulfill his mandate of ushering in a new era of free speech to the platform. It’s unclear how much of this should be attributed to incompetence or indifference.
It’s also likely that Musk underestimated the complexity of pursuing free speech policies on a social media platform that operates in countries with vastly different political and legal norms surrounding speech. Before his takeover, he said that
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