Musk’s X Censoring Unwanted Links?
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The largest Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet has published an article dubbed “This is how the mica is traced to the electric car giants.” In it, the author relies on 51 cases of delivery of this material that is one of the key components for making electrical cars.
“Now Aftonbladet can reveal the electric car giant Tesla's connection to two large Chinese suppliers who buy child-crushed mica. Volvo Cars and BMW also do business with one of the companies,” the newspaper writes.
These children, as per the report, live in southern Madagascar. It is estimated that 11,000 children are exploited in the mines, half the workforce. Tesla has refused to answer questions on the subject.
However, there’s a twist.
While Tesla is refusing to answer questions regarding the publication, it appears that Musk-owned social media platform X (Twitter) knows very well about the article…and doesn’t want you to read it.
Nobel laureate Beatrice Fihn wrote on X a tweet that reads, “the largest Swedish evening paper publishes an investigation of child labour in mica mines in Madagascar that is being used in Tesla cars. If you click on any link to this story on Twitter today, this platform will give you a warning that the story might be spam or dangerous.”
“Now Aftonbladet can reveal the electric car giant Tesla's connection to two large Chinese suppliers who buy child-crushed mica. Volvo Cars and BMW also do business with one of the companies,” the newspaper writes.
These children, as per the report, live in southern Madagascar. It is estimated that 11,000 children are exploited in the mines, half the workforce. Tesla has refused to answer questions on the subject.
However, there’s a twist.
While Tesla is refusing to answer questions regarding the publication, it appears that Musk-owned social media platform X (Twitter) knows very well about the article…and doesn’t want you to read it.
Nobel laureate Beatrice Fihn wrote on X a tweet that reads, “the largest Swedish evening paper publishes an investigation of child labour in mica mines in Madagascar that is being used in Tesla cars. If you click on any link to this story on Twitter today, this platform will give you a warning that the story might be spam or dangerous.”
And it turned out to be true. When you click the link, a message pops up that reads “Warning: this link may be unsafe”. It then tells you that this a potentially malicious link, spammy link, violent or misleading content, or a certain “category of content that, if posted directly on X, are a violation of the X rules.
As a result some users started to joke, saying that the link is “Unsafe for Elons ego, perhaps.” Meanwhile, another one noted, “No surprise here. Musk’s father — a pro-apartheid South African racist owned an emerald mine and used essentially black slave labor.”
“The free speech tycoon strikes again. Never seen this feature before. Not a feature often used by X. Only when it suits them apparently,” one more user added.
Musk is no stranger to recurrent controversy. Recently, we reported that his own creation Grok reportedly turned against him.
He also appears to be highly sensitive to any criticism, including by Wikipedia.
Link to Aftonbladet
This circumstance provoked a bevy of responses. Some people emphasized that Aftonbladet is definitely not the kind of site that is “malicious” or “spammy”. Especially compared to all the other links that are freely available on X, as well as rampant disinformation.
As a result some users started to joke, saying that the link is “Unsafe for Elons ego, perhaps.” Meanwhile, another one noted, “No surprise here. Musk’s father — a pro-apartheid South African racist owned an emerald mine and used essentially black slave labor.”
“The free speech tycoon strikes again. Never seen this feature before. Not a feature often used by X. Only when it suits them apparently,” one more user added.
Musk is no stranger to recurrent controversy. Recently, we reported that his own creation Grok reportedly turned against him.
He also appears to be highly sensitive to any criticism, including by Wikipedia.
