Billionaire Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, is laying the groundwork for 2024 election censorship, according to recent policy and hiring posts.
X will be implementing additional censorship policies during the time period around the 2024 election, it announced on Tuesday. The company intends to guarantee “an accurate and safe political discourse” and is also hiring people to tackle election-related “disinformation” on the platform, according to an X job description for information operations senior specialists posted on Aug. 11.
X will enable political advertising on the platform, update its Civic Integrity Policy and increase its Community Notes tool, which allows certain individuals to “add context to posts,” according to the announcement. Its current Civic Integrity Policy is from January and empowers X to delete posts and ban accounts for “misleading…
