Elon Musk offers legal assistance to users with problems at work for posts

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Musk did not reveal details on how users could claim the money.

Elon Musk said on Saturday that his social media company X will provide legal assistance to users who face retaliatory measures from their bosses for posts on the platform.

Some users, including many celebrities and other public figures, have gotten into trouble with their employers over controversial issues they posted, liked or retweeted on the platform, which was formerly known as Twitter.

“If you have been treated unfairly by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal expenses”

he wrote on the site.

“No Boundaries. Please let us know.”

Musk did not reveal details on how users could claim the money.

Since the businessman bought the platform for US$ 44 billion (227 billion reais at the time) in October last year, the network’s advertising activity has collapsed, in part because of its more flexible approach to blocking hate speech and the return of previously banned far-right accounts.

Musk has repeatedly cited a desire for free speech as a motivation for the changes. He criticizes what he sees as a threat to freedom of expression posed by changing cultural sensitivities.

According to the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), hate speech has increased on the platform.

AX disputed the findings and is suing the CCDH.

In December, Musk reinstated former US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, although Trump has yet to return to the platform.

In early 2021, the former president was banned from the social network for his role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol by a group of his supporters who were trying to reverse the results of the 2020 elections.

Recently, X also reinstated rapper and designer Kanye West, nearly eight months after his account was suspended, according to media reports.

Last year, West, who is now professionally known as Ye, posted an image that appeared to show a swastika intertwined with a Star of David, and Musk suspended the artist from the platform.

*With information from IstoÉ

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