Musk Supports Unrestricted “Free Speech” as Twitter’s New Owner

October 29, 2022 By Raulf Hernes

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Elon Musk focused his plans for Twitter, which he recently acquired, on the new moderating techniques he intended to introduce. Musk suggests enhancing the social media platform by introducing new features, making the algorithms open source to foster trust, getting rid of spambots, and confirming the identity of every user, according to a report from The Independent. In his statement, Musk claimed that "free expression is the cornerstone of a healthy democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where issues crucial to the future of humanity are debated." Musk has since clarified his position on free speech as follows: "If people want less free speech, they will ask [the government] to create laws to Musk Supports Unrestricted “Free Speech” as Twitter’s New Owner

Musk Supports Unrestricted “Free Speech” as Twitter’s New Owner

According to The Independent, experts have deemed this unachievable because it goes against the laws of countries that take an authoritarian approach to online criticism. Additionally, it is against international law, which calls for greater moderation. It is impossible to think of a bigger oxymoron than free speech, according to Lewis Wiltshire, the former director of sports at Twitter, and it is incorrect to think of it as a single, unambiguous idea. Musk also intends to reactivate the accounts of prominent users who were previously suspended for disseminating violent and false material. According to The New Republic, former President Trump is most likely the most prominent of these users (TNR). TNR claims that the spread of hate speech and incorrect information has led to countless deaths and suffering that could have been avoided if there had been moderation. Musk Supports Unrestricted “Free Speech” as Twitter’s New Owner

It asserted that false information spread on social media has resulted in significantly more deaths and property damage than acts of racial, antisemitic, and Islamophobic actions put together. According to TNR, while continuously supplying the public with propaganda, half-truths, fallacies, and misinformation on mostly uncensored social media, conservative "thinking leaders" failed to educate them. They were told that Covid was a hoax or that it posed no more risk than the flu. According to a different study, Facebook was the main source of the possibly lethal misinformation about the virus. According to the research, Facebook's meager or nonexistent efforts to combat misinformation

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