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Elon Musk’s X lifts ban on political ads, reversing Twitter policy on halting misinformation

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Source:     Agence France-Presse (France)
Publication Date:     30/08/2023 | 02:19
 Link: Elon Musk’s X lifts ban on political ads, reversing Twitter policy on halting misinformation
Stephan:  

All the oligarchs who care about politics are becoming active, but no one is as blatantly trying to turn America into an anocracy as Elon Musk. He recently had Tucker Carlson on X, and I don’t think Carlson said a single thing that was true. Instead, it was one lie after another. Musk is also sabotaging the Ukrainians in their war against Putin. What all this shows is that we have created a fascist oligarch class who are literally becoming a kind of shadow government.

Elon Musk has advocated relying on ‘community notes’ posted by users at X, formerly known as Twitter, to point out when information is false. Credit: Alain Jocard / AFP

Welcoming back potentially misleading political messages at X came less than a week after former president Donald Trump posted there for the first time since January 2021.

Trump posted his police mugshot after his arrest in Georgia, signaling his return to a platform that was his favourite bullhorn during his years in the White House.

It was his first post since several days after the insurrection at the US Capitol that saw an enraged mob of his supporters attempt to block Joe Biden’s certification as president.

The then-Twitter permanently suspended Trump after the January 6 riot, ruling he had violated the platform’s policy on glorifying violence as he pressed his false claims that the election was stolen from him.

Musk, who bought the platform last year, reinstated the former president in November 2022, but Trump stayed away, choosing to reach his followers on his own platform, Truth Social, albeit with a much smaller audience.

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