A scorching potato: There are lots of cautionary tales about folks posting (or liking) one thing controversial on social media and dropping their jobs over it. According to Elon Musk, if the platform in query is X, previously often called Twitter, the corporate pays that particular person’s legal bills.
“If you have been unfairly handled by your employer due to posting or liking one thing on this platform, we’ll fund your legal invoice,” Musk mentioned in a submit late on Saturday.
The world’s richest man added that there shall be no restrict as to how a lot monetary support X would offer somebody combating their dismissal in courtroom. He additionally mentioned that as well as to a lawsuit, X shall be “extraordinarily loud” and go after the boards of administrators of the businesses.
If you have been unfairly handled by your employer due to posting or liking one thing on this platform, we’ll fund your legal invoice.
No restrict.
Please tell us.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2023
It’ll actually be fascinating to see simply how carefully Musk sticks to this promise and if there shall be any exceptions. X will seemingly preserve that if one thing’s allowed to be posted as per the location’s guidelines, the corporate will defend the creator and people who prefer it.
Before he purchased the corporate, Musk had lengthy complained about Twitter not adhering to the rules of free speech. Since taking on, he is allowed many beforehand banned users to return, slackened the moderation insurance policies, and fired a lot of the content material moderation staff.
X Corp. lately sued an anti-hate group that mentioned the platform was full of racist, homophobic, neo-Nazi, antisemitic, or conspiracy content material which X wasn’t eradicating regardless of being flagged. X claimed that the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has been illegally scraping its servers and cherry-picking essentially the most hateful posts it may well discover as half of “a scare marketing campaign to drive away advertisers.” It additionally accused the CCDH of being funded by Twitter rivals or international governments with an ulterior agenda.
X additionally alleged that the CCDH targets free-speech organizations and makes an attempt to deplatform users whose views don’t align with its personal ideology.
Zuck v Musk struggle shall be live-streamed on �*�.
All proceeds will go to charity for veterans.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2023
Elsewhere, Musk mentioned that his will-they-or-won’t-they struggle with fellow billionaire Mark Zuckerberg goes forward and shall be livestreamed on X. Musk added that every one proceeds from the struggle will go to veterans’ charities.
Musk’s affirmation is considerably of a shock on condition that it was solely final week when Zuckerberg advised workers at an organization city corridor assembly that he is “unsure if it is [the fight] going to come collectively.”
One would think about that it could be Musk making an attempt to keep away from the struggle, on condition that Zuckerberg was lately promoted to blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and has been coaching within the martial artwork and MMA for the reason that Covid lockdowns; he now trains up to three to 4 instances per week.