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X owner Elon Musk partially confirmed a report by the online medium “The Information” that the short message service is cutting half of the jobs in this area. “Oh, you mean the ‘Election Integrity’ team that undermined election integrity?” the high-tech billionaire wrote on X. “Yes, they’re gone.”
The move comes at a critical time: There are more than 50 major elections worldwide next year, including the European elections in June and the US congressional and presidential elections in November 2024.
Musk contradicts his X boss
The X boss appointed by Musk, Linda Yaccarino, assured this week that the online platform was expanding its election team. “There is a robust and growing team at X dedicated to election integrity,” she said at a conference.
An evaluation by the EU Commission recently came to the conclusion that of the large online platforms, X has the largest proportion of false information. Musk pulled out of an agreement on how to deal with misinformation between the EU and major online services.
Critics accuse the head of electric car maker Tesla of having sharply scaled back content moderation and cracking down on hate speech and misinformation since he took over Twitter last year.
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