X CEO Linda Yaccarino stepped in to remove a pro-Hitler post
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X CEO Linda Yaccarino stepped in to remove a pro-Hitler post::X CEO Linda Yaccarino helped get a viral pro-Hitler tweet taken down, The Information reported. Hate speech has risen on X since Elon Musk's takeover.
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I didn't read the article but they need the CEO to remove a pro-Hitler post? Nobody else can do it?
Yes, it shouldn't take a C-suite level decision to remove content praising Hitler and the Holocaust. The fact that it does suggests there is major disfunction in X/Twitter's approach to content moderation, which the article hints at but doesn't really explain.
I can
Musk made it that way
Did he make it that way specifically for Hitler?
He's a "free speech absolutist". Unless the speech offends him.
'My free speech' absolutist