Elon Musk has promised to foot the invoice for anybody who has been ‘unfairly handled’ by their employer for liking posts on X (previously often known as Twitter).
The billionaire stated there shall be ‘no restrict’ to how a lot financial authorized help his agency will present, despite the fact that the platform is claimed to be nonetheless struggling financially.
It is unclear how affected folks can attraction for help or declare their cash, though some have acknowledged their curiosity by replying to Musk’s submit.
Musk took over Twitter in October and has simply modified its title to X as a part of plans to show it into what he is described as an ‘all the pieces’ app.
A shiny ‘X’ brand was put in on the platform’s headquarters in San Francisco earlier than being eliminated as a consequence of complaints from native residents.
It is not clear how customers who’re embroiled in authorized motion with former employer can declare their cash
Elon Musk (pictured) took over Twitter in October and has simply modified the social community’s title to X
Musk made the assertion in a submit – previously often known as a tweet – on Sunday that acquired greater than 100 million views.
‘In case you had been unfairly handled by your employer as a consequence of posting or liking one thing on this platform, we’ll fund your authorized invoice,’ Musk stated.
‘No restrict. Please tell us.’
Many instances folks have been fired for liking or in any other case showing to endorse a tweet by liking or retweeting it, or an account simply by following it.
One instance is US online game worker Kara Lynne, who was fired by Restricted Run Video games for ‘following transphobic accounts’ and ‘voicing pleasure over Harry Potter recreation’.
Lynne – whose termination was triggered by a grievance from trans activist Jessica Clean – was tagged in Musk’s submit and earlier than he replied by asking her for extra particulars.
One other instance is Sasha White, a literary assistant agent from New York, who stated she’d been fired by The Tobias Literary Company after retweeting a remark about trans girls.
Musk has a behavior of constructing outlandish guarantees that do not come to fruition, so it is value taking this one with a grain of salt.
Because the proprietor of Tesla, he is garnered a fame for optimistic launch schedules that come and go with none signal of the product, together with the Cybertruck.
However the notion of giving monetary help to individuals who have been affected in related vogue shall be applauded by many who argue in favour of free speech.
A shiny ‘X’ brand was put in on the platform’s headquarters in San Francisco earlier than being eliminated as a consequence of complaints from native residents
Musk has repeatedly cited a want totally free speech on the social media platform and has reinstated the accounts of figures who had been banned below the outdated possession.
In December, Musk reinstated former US president Donald Trump’s Twitter account, though Trump has but to make use of the platform once more.
The ex-president was banned from Twitter in early 2021 for his position within the January 6 assault on the US Capitol by a gaggle of his supporters in search of to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election.
X just lately reinstated rapper and designer Kanye West round eight months after his account was suspended, in line with media reviews.
Final 12 months, West, who now goes professionally by Ye, posted a picture that appeared to point out a swastika interlaced with a Star of David, and Musk suspended the artist from the platform.
Musk has granted a reprieve to banned accounts as he envisions X.com as ‘a trusted digital city sq.’ the place a variety of views are ‘tolerated supplied folks do not break the regulation or spam’.
Regardless of this, Musk does threaten authorized motion in opposition to house owners of accounts which have tweeted issues that he would not agree with.
Musk is at the moment suing British nonprofit organisation the Middle for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which has alleged hate speech has flourished on the platform since he took over.
In December, Musk reinstated former US president Donald Trump’s Twitter account, though Trump has but to make use of the platform once more and prefers Fact Social, a platform the ex-president based. Fact Social (pictured) seems to be quite quite a bit like X (previously Twitter)
The entrepreneur has accused the CCDH of producing ‘flawed’ research which have value the tycoon’s tech agency tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}, a duplicate of the lawsuit confirmed.
Additionally this weekend, Musk stated his alleged cage combat with Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg shall be streamed on X with ‘all proceeds going to charity’.
Talks of a combat between the 2 have escalated in the previous couple of months since Zuckerberg launched Threads, a rival social community that appears quite a bit like X.
Talks of ‘cage combat’ escalate between Mark Zuckerberg and rival Elon Musk
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter proprietor Elon Musk could also be about to interact in a ‘cage combat’ to settle the long-running feud that has principally performed out on-line.
It began close to the tip of June when Musk was commenting about Meta’s plans to launch Threads, a rival social media app.
Musk stated of Threads: ‘I’m certain Earth can’t wait to be solely below Zuck’s thumb with no different choices.’
Musk was then informed that the Meta CEO practices jiu jitsu, to which he replied: ‘I’m up for a cage match if he’s lol.’
The Twitter boss later tweeted: ‘If that is for actual, I’ll do it.’
Zuckerberg replied by posting a screenshot of Musk’s tweet to his Instagram story with the caption: ‘Ship me location.’
Mark Zuckerberg appeared to conform to the cage combat, merely posting the phrases ‘ship me location’ on his Instagram story
The Colosseum in Rome has been supplied as a possible venue for the combat by the Italian Minister of Tradition, in line with reviews.
Zuckerberg’s firm appeared to take a dig at Twitter by saying Threads shall be ‘sanely-run’.
Musk has urged Twitter customers to delete their Fb accounts, calling the social community ‘lame’ previously.
