by Calvin Freiburger, LifeSite News:
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Recent comments by tech mogul Elon Musk about modifying his social network X to “maximize unregretted user-seconds” has critics fearing the platform is losing sight of its mission as a model of free speech on the internet.
Tesla and SpaceX chief Musk, who also co-leads returning President Donald Trump’s non-governmental Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) advisory group, purchased Twitter (which he renamed X) in October 2022 and set to work making it more open and politically neutral. To that end, he instituted a number of reforms to the platform and other actions that overjoyed conservatives, such as replacing so-called fact-checkers with a far more accurate, user-driven Community Notes feature, releasing troves of information about the previous management’s censorship activities, and reinstating numerous high-profile accounts banned by the old regime.
However, from the start of Musk’s tenure over the platform there were some causes for concern, including his hiring of former World Economic Forum executive chair Linda Yaccarino to take over day-to-day business operations as CEO, giving lip service to the notion that “outrageous” content should be subject to reduced “freedom of reach,” and throttling the reach of posts containing outside links, to encourage users to exclusively use the platform’s native features without clicking away. But for the most part, conservatives have been pleased by the new X.
However, since Christmas, Musk has detailed a number of changes to the platform that have not gone over well among many who used to sing his praises.
