TWITTER BOSS ELON Musk has railed against what he sees as U.S. government attempts to “censor” the social media company.
“As (outgoing) Chair of House Intelligence, did you approve hidden state censorship in direct violation of the Constitution of the United States @RepAdamSchiff?” he asked one congressman in a tweet last December.
Musk has also promised, over and over again, to build a more transparent Twitter — one that makes it clear when a government agency requests a user’s data, or asks to take an account offline. “Transparency is the key to trust,” he tweeted around the same time.
For a decade, Twitter published rundowns twice a year of all of those government requests. But under Musk, that appears to have ended.
Despite Musk’s rhetoric about government bullying of social media, his company hasn’t published one of the formerly regular transparency reports detailing what governments are demanding from Twitter — and whether the company is bending to them.
It’s a development that’s horrified privacy advocates and former Twitter employees alike.
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