Elon Musk stopped policing political misinformation. The tech industry followed.

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Elon Musk stopped policing political misinformation. The tech industry followed.
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Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

conservative Twitter accounts, including Jordan Peterson, a professor who was banned from Twitter for misgendering a trans person, and the Babylon Bee, a conservative media company. Musk also brought back Republican politicians including Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , whose personal account was banned for violating the platform’s covid-19 misinformation policies. He simultaneously

Soon after Musk’s Twitter acquisition, scores of Republican candidates and right-wing influencers tested Meta, Twitter and other social media platforms’ resolve to fight election misinformation. In the months leading up to the midterms, far-right personalities and GOP candidatesThis year, GOP election deniers got a free pass from Twitter and Facebook

Last year, Meta dissolved the responsible innovation team, a small group that evaluated the potential risks of some of Meta’s products, according to a person familiar with the matter, and simultaneously shuttered the much-touted Facebook Journalism Project, which was designed to promote quality information on the platform.

 

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