In an irony of sorts, Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter), has been censored on his own app.
What Happened: Musk was at the center of censorship on his own app after X's filters flagged one of his posts as "sensitive" and hid it from user view.
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A user going by the name Hodgetwins posted the censored content on X, tagging Musk. Responding to them, Musk expressed his tiredness with X's legacy code, which includes details on the kind of content that gets flagged, censored, and hidden from public view.
Musk's followers posted a mix of hilarious replies and memes, and some argued for this algorithm to be "fixed".
To another poster, Musk said that these are remnants of the old Twitter.
"Almost all of it is vestigial. "Trust & Safety"," he said.
Why It Matters: Musk has long argued for X to be censorship-free. After acquiring Twitter and taking over control, one of the first tasks he did was to ask the existing employees if they were "all in" on his vision. Since then, nearly 85% of the employees have been let go.
While Musk has remained consistent in his censorship argument since then, he has ceded to local laws of different countries around the world.
To combat misinformation, however, Musk got the remaining employees to add a new feature called Community Notes that provides content to content deemed misinformation instead of censoring or removing those posts.
He also boasted of being "Community Noted" on a recent podcast, suggesting that the feature is working as intended. What that says about Musk spreading misinformation, though, is another matter.
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