Musk will remove the option to block users in X, the old Twitter

2023-08-19 13:15:34

The American billionaire Elon Musk has announced his desire to suppress a function of X (formerly Twitter), a social network of which he owns, which allows block messages emanating from certain accounts.

“Block (block) will be suppressed as a function, except for DMs,” Elon Musk said on Friday, referring to direct messages between users of this social network.

This function is designed to restrict exchanges between certain platform accounts.

Musk, who bought Twitter, renamed X, for $44 billion in October, has always justified changes to the platform by wanting to encourage as much sharing as possible. freedom of expression.

Crisis

Since the billionaire took control, the social network used around the world by people from all walks of life has seen plummet your ad revenuepartly as a consequence of this encouragement of all forms of expression, including hate speech, hoaxes and the return of extremist user accounts.

According to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), hate messages are back to flourish on the platform, a claim denied by X, who filed a complaint against CCDH.

In December, Elon Musk reopened the former president’s account Donald Trumpbanned from the platform at the beginning of 2021 for his role in the assault on the US Capitol on January 6 of that same year by a group of his supporters who questioned the result of the 2020 presidential election, which Joe Biden won.

X has also reinstated the account of US rapper Kanye West, eight months after it was suspended, according to US media. Last fall, Kanye West, who goes by the stage name Ye, posted an image of a swastika entwined with a Star of David, and Elon Musk decided to suspend his account.