2 days agoX coordinate Elon Musk sues California to abolish content mode law
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(3 years ago)Elon Musk's X platform has indicted the state of California on Friday for a state law that has imposed new transparency rules for social media companies, urging them to publish their policies for police deinformation, harassment, hate speech and extremism. X, the social media platform, said the law of [...]
X, the social media platform, said the law known as the Assembly Bill 587 violates freedom of speech under the First Amendment of the US Constitution and the Constitution of the State of California, writes Reuters, broadcasts Klan Kosova.
In the complaint filed at the federal court in Sacramento, California, X estimates that the true “purpose of the law is to pressure social media companies to eliminate content that the state considered controversial.
By doing so, California is forcing companies to adopt state views on politically charged issues, the X company stressed.
After buying Teitter for $44 billion last October, Musk fired many employees responsible for monitoring and fixing content and re-established some accounts the previous management had banned.
