State and corporate attacks on X and other social media platforms are the greatest threat to free speech since the rise of totalitarianism in the 20th Century
Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, is a hotbed of bigotry and hate, the mainstream media claims. X is a vehicle through which racist and antisemitic memes move from the fringe to the mainstream, argues the Washington Post. “An antisemitic post on Elon Musk’s X is not exactly news,” wrote reporter Will Oremus on Thursday. “But new research finds the site has emerged as a conduit to mainstream exposure for a fresh wave of automated hate memes, generated using cutting-edge AI image tools by trolls on the notorious online forum 4chan.”