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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Andy Hirschfeld

The right-wing lurch of X under Elon Musk

Elon Musk has allowed US presidential candidate Donald Trump to have a free run on X even as he has been accused of throttling views he doesn't agree with [File: Etienne Laurent and Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP]

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, and changed its name to X, he has banned journalists critical of him, and been accused of censoring Democratic voices while simultaneously amplifying those of far-right extremists, even while claiming to be a “free speech absolutist”.

While BlueSky, Meta’s Threads and others have gained from users disaffected with X, they pale in comparison to X’s hold on the information landscape.

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