Government needs to assess Elon Musk’s ‘agenda’ with X, Micheál Martin says
The Tánaiste has said that the social media platform is allowing hate speech and attacks under ‘the cover of free speech’
Tánaiste Micheál Martin has called for a government assessment to be done of social media platform X’s “agenda” and its “impact on democracy and society”.
Martin was responding to to a Business Post investigation that revealed in detail how X, formerly Twitter, has significantly watered down its trust and safety rules over recent months, and how its policies allow abusive and hateful accounts to remain on the platform.
The documents, dating from June to October of this year, showed how content moderators had been told not to suspend the users behind certain hateful material, including content promoting physical harm against an individual, references to mass murders “with the intent to harass”, and content that “incites fear about a protected category” of people.
