Since Elon Musk Twitter , resistance to politically motivated censorship attempts on the microblogging service has decreased significantly. As the service's internal data shows, 971 such requests were submitted to the portal by governments and courts in the past six months. In 808 cases it was given in. This corresponds to a compliance rate of 83 percent. Before the Musk takeover, this value was just under 50 percent.
"Free expression"
“It has now been exactly six months since Elon Musk took over Twitter and promised to usher in a new era of free expression and independence from political influence,” said a report by international non-profit news portal Rest of World. that took a closer look at the data. fed into the US community archive of the Lumen database
“Twitter’s own data confirms that the company under Musk’s leadership gave in in hundreds of cases and simply implemented calls for censorship or surveillance,” the experts emphasize. These included many requests to delete controversial postings or requests to reveal private information in order to investigate anonymous user accounts.
“Can’t break laws”
“The largest number of political censorship requests came from countries that have recently adopted stricter laws to restrict public freedom of expression,” the report said. As an example, reference is made to India, where the responsible ministry asked Twitter in January to remove all reports with photographic material from a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But Turkey also had a lot of content blocked on the network before the recent presidential elections, which also brought it heavy criticism .
“We can’t break the laws of a country,” Twitter boss Musk made clear in a current “BBC” interview when asked about the censorship issue. “If we are given the choice between locking up our employees or adhering to applicable laws, we will abide by the laws,” said the enterprising US billionaire.
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