On Wednesday 11/13, Elon Musk, who was recently appointed as a minister in the government of the newly elected US president, Donald Trump, hit out at a high-ranking NATO official who, commenting on the issue of disinformation, questioned the way in which the X social media is managed. Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, head of NATO’s military commission, said during a conference of the International Institute for Strategic Studies that he believes “very much in freedom of expression” but added that he is not “convinced that (…) what Musk is doing in X is the correct approach’. Bauer warned against “disinformation and cyberattacks (…) influencing elections,” while adding that social media “amplifies everything created by bots,” the automated applications that make posts. “Make Orwell fiction again! People like him think 1984 is an instruction manual,” Musk pointed out, referring to the British author’s famous novel. Before buying Twitter in 2022, which it renamed […]
Source: News Beast
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