"This is not about freedom of speech": Podolyak sends strong reaction over scandals with Musk's X

Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak reacted to the latest scandals surrounding posts with anti-Semitic and Nazi content on social network X (formerly Twitter), asking the owner of the platform Elon Musk why he would deliberately destroy something that should build and unite, UNN reports.

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The tactic of voluntarily infecting the social network with radical diseases - anti-Semitism, glorification of Nazism, aggressive Russophilia, classical conspiracy theories

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According to the adviser to the head of the OP, this is not about freedom of speech, professional discussions or information competition.

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Why deliberately destroy something that should build and unite? Elon Musk, what is the deeper meaning of such "techno-progressivism"? Is it sensational self-discredit? In a sharp decline in platform profitability? Is it in banishing pluralism and turning it into a cesspool for radicals only? In provoking public political and legal claims?

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The nonprofit organization Media Matters recently drew attention to the fact that ads for some large companies were displayed on X alongside posts praising Hitler and Nazism. The social network then reported that it was "purging" pro-Nazi accounts. 

Another scandal erupted after Musk on November 15 supported an anti-Semitic tweet and then accused a Jewish NGO that fights anti-Semitism of allegedly "promoting racism."

Amid scandals Apple, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, Sony Pictures and Lionsgate, as well as IBM announced that they would stop advertising on the platform.