Elon Musk stated that his social media company X (formerly Twitter) would fund the legal bills of any user mistreated by their employer for engaging with or posting content on the platform.
In an Aug. 5 X thread announcing the move, Musk said that lawsuits of any scale would be supported:
The post appears to have been received well and has more than 200,000 likes at the time of writing, with a flood of people putting their hands up for funding for potential lawsuits.
For example, The Libs of TikTok highlighted a case in which a Limited Run Games employee, Kara Lynne, was reportedly fired for following the account on X.
Putting his money where his mouth is, Musk responded by asking: “Kara, is that accurate?” Lynne then stated: “The situation is slightly more complicated than the headline. But yes.”
Musk is a self-described “free speech absolutist” who has a clear disdain for cancel culture, and this latest move seems to align with his push to shift X away from content censorship, particularly relating to political and ideological views.
In December 2022, Musk tweeted that “cancel culture needs to be canceled.” Under his ownership, X has reinstated several accounts that were banned for policy violations under the previous ownership.
The latest announcement from Musk comes as changes continue to unfold at X.
The platform underwent a full rebrand from Twitter to X in July as part of a push to become an “everything app.”
The revenue-sharing model was also recently introduced for users, and on Aug. 2, X also rolled out an option for the premium Blue service subscribers to hide their verified checkmarks.