When asked about this, the Inevitable West told me that they would say the same about other religions. Separately, they also said they would never delete their own posts – even if they turned out to be false.
Meanwhile, their content is seen by feeds around the world.
Accusations of bias in its moderation practices have long dogged Twitter, both before and after Mr. Musk bought the company, along with questions about whether the site had previously restricted free speech.
I spoke to Twitter insiders about this for the Panorama investigation that aired in 2023, and they told me they believed the company would fight to protect users from trolling, state-coordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation, reducing it to , including mass layoffs.
At that time X did not respond to the points raised. Afterward, Mr Musk tweeted a BBC piece about the Panorama episode with the caption: “Sorry for turning Twitter from a parenting paradise into a place where there are… trolls.” He also stated that “trolls are a lot of fun.”
Separately, Mr Musk said he had “no choice” but to cut the company’s workforce due to financial losses.
Lisa Jennings Young, former head of content design at X, who worked there until 2022, says, “I feel like we’re all living through a huge social experiment (on humanity).”
He doesn’t have a specific goal, she says. Instead, she says, it’s “an uncontrolled social science experiment (but one) that we’re all a part of.” No one really knows what the end result might be, she argues.
