First he bought Twitter and introduced Community Notes to give readers a chance to add context. Now he's revealing the country of origin of these "American" posters. No wonder the Left hates him.
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MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Elon Musk’s zeal for truth reveals the online frauds aiming to divide us. Key bit:
We’ve heard a lot in recent years about “misinformation” and “disinformation” on the Internet, which officials in both the United States and the increasingly totalitarian European Union have used as an excuse to censor ideas they don’t like.
Inevitably, the ideas they dislike are those coming from their political opponents.
But Musk on Friday didn’t censor people for lying. He revealed them as liars.
Rather than repression, he chose illumination. . . .
Musk chose transparency over “security,” and in so doing he ripped the masks off tens (hundreds?) of thousands of fake accounts that have been doing real harm to America’s political discourse — without silencing anyone.
More effectively, too: Censoring deliberately divisive accounts makes it look like you’re hiding something.
Exposing fake ones makes clear who’s doing the hiding.
Learn from Elon. He’s a smart guy.
I took Reynolds up on his invitation to read the full article and so should you; it’s excellent.