There is no official label on Musk’s retweet indicating that the video is a parody or has been manipulated, which may violate X’s policy regarding misleading content.
“You may not share synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm (‘misleading media’),” the policy says. “In addition, we may label posts containing misleading media to help people understand their authenticity and to provide additional context.”
OK, so we know that a platform can’t be penalized for publishing bad information or stuff others post on the platform. Got it.
Could Musk himself be sued for libel or slander for publicly promoting lies and misinformation? It worked for Dominion. Not exactly the same, maybe, but it rhymes.
White Dudes for Harris, a pop-up group backing VP Kamala Harris’ bid to defeat Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election that features some notable Hollywood white guys, said Elon Musk’s X had suspended its account — right after it hosted a YouTube livestream that raised more than $4 million for the Harris campaign.
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In an update Tuesday morning, Nellis wrote that “Our tweets are back (@dudes4harris) but our account remains suspended and according to Twitter our account is ‘permanently in read-only mode.’”
Almost gives me a reason to rejoin twitter.
Hawkwin
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