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Read Replies (1) | Respond to FREE SPEECH MY ARSE: Musk's X censors coverage of Trump's Arlington incident, citing potential "spam"Story by Griffin Eckstein 1h • 2 min read damning altercation between Donald Trump’s campaign and staff at the Arlington National Cemetery was briefly censored by Elon Musk’s X on Thursday morning, amplifying concerns surrounding the platform’s role in burying anti-Trump content, as its owner embraces the candidate.NPR with the headline “Army says Arlington National Cemetery worker was 'pushed aside' by Trump aides,” contains a statement from the Army condemning the Trump campaign for its actions, later flagged with a warning from X reading, “this article may be unsafe,” per a screenshot circulating on the platform.designated a “state-affiliated media” group by Musk, was further addressed in a response from X , stating that the label was a “false positive.” But it’s not the first time in recent weeks that X has limited the reach of anti-Trump and pro-Harris content. The platform faced scrutiny last month for suspending pro-Harris account “White Dudes for Harris,” a group that raised over $4 million for the candidate during a July Zoom meetingadvertise pro-Trump tags to all U.S. users, has pledged tens of millions of dollars in monthly contributions to Trump’s re-election effort, enlisting a personal Republican political consultant and founding a PAC that was caught misdirecting hopeful swing state voters.enlisted moderation tools to attack the use of words like “cisgender” on the platform, and reduced blocks on electoral misinformation, including claims that the 2020 election was stolen. Still, critics note that filters against hate speech have been weakened, and the use of political content containing stolen and deep-faked photos remains prevalent.
