Elon suspended PG's account just for lightly alluding that another social media platform exists. I'm not sure why you're even bringing up the idea of free speech on Twitter. Can you imagine Discord suspending your account for lightly alluding that Slack exists?

This is by Twitter itself, before Musk: "Our results reveal a remarkably consistent trend: In six out of seven countries studied, the mainstream political right enjoys higher algorithmic amplification than the mainstream political left." https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2025334119

This is more recent: "We observe a right-leaning bias in exposure for new accounts within their default timelines." https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01852

You can also find a lot a testimony from users like: https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1es2lfd/...

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Now from personal experience (I've been on Twitter since 2007 and used it virtually everyday since then):

I've heard and read a lot of such testimony in particular from user who don't post much or at all and only follow a few accounts. In the last two years they've been exposed to a lot of far right content.

I've seen how the moderation team at twitter took action before musk when reporting (often illegal) hate speech and now just respond by saying that it doesn't violates the platform rules.

I've seen on the contrary people (even journalists) and political or news organization getting locked out of their account following a far right online mob against them, and then having a hard time (sometimes to the point of giving up) getting it back because the moderation team did not act.

I can. Before he owned twitter, if someone called me the n-word or other racial slurs, action was taken. Now when that happens and I report it, they reply to tell me no rules were broken

I use Twitter for machine learning research only, but somehow that account gets inundated with Maga crap. That's proof enough for me.

Sure, that's an anecdote of one instance, but it's so clear. And how would you do a proper study? I'm guessing you would need Elon's permission.

Its interesting how doing something is immediately equated with 'removing not far right' free speech.

The idea is he promotes the talking points that benefit the right and the Republicans. Both personally and in changing the platforms algorithms [1].

There have been reports of people disagreeing with that general 'platform' loosing their blue check marks [2], accounts being disabled, followers dropped [3] and so on to reduce the reach of left/liberal people.

He doesn't need to remove speech he disagrees with, he can drown it and amplify the messages he wants to be heard and significantly control the narrative and discussion that way.

[1]https://eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/1/A_computational_analysis...

[2]https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/elon-musk-accused-...

[3]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-twitter-accounts-left-los...

If your position is that awareness of Musk’s alignment with the far right is a matter of feeling rather than well-documented fact [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] then no amount of easily-accessible and readily-available detail will convince you to adjust that position.

As for an example of Elon making Twitter rules around speech he doesn’t like, here[8] is one that is very public and not hard to come by.

1 https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/02/elon-musk-nazis-kanye-twit...

2 https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/12/20/elo...

3 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/technology/elon-musk-far-...

4 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-...

5 https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/business/elon-musk-nazi-jokes...

6 https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/05/02/elon-musk-reinstates-...

7 https://www.vice.com/en/article/elon-musk-twitter-nazis-whit...

8 https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-cis-cisgender-slur-twitter-185...

Elevating tweets of folks that pay the troll under the bridge, where folks on the left are going to avoid that fee (why would someone on the left materially support a right wing pundit?) is one very obvious way.

Just go check out that man's X (twitter?) feed. Elon constantly says the quiet part out loud. I'm from genx and if you're younger I'm going to give you all some solid life advice. When someone tells you who they are, listen.

> how is he removing free speech that is not "far right"

In Dec 2022 he suspended the accounts of several left-leaning journalists without providing a cohesive justification: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/technology/twitter-suspen...

Posting about Ukraine is categorised as misinformation and downranked: https://x.com/aakashg0/status/1641976925064245249

Suppression of tweets in India and Turkey: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/twitter-takes-down-po... https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/twitter-musk-censors...

> you feel Musk is aligned with the far right

It's not a feel, it's real (unless you're so far to the right yourself, you don't consider the AfD, neo-nazis, TERFs, etc etc such)

Create a new account and find out. If you create a new account, without any other information, twitter will recommend you follow Musk, Don Jr (President's right wing son), and Babylong Bee, a right wing fake news joke site.

Go ahead, do the experiment and come back and tell me what you see.

He tweeted 150x a day in support of Trump leading up to the election. Just go look at his timeline.

Edit: lol at this getting downvoted. Some of you free speech purists really don't want to hear basic facts. Seriously. Just go look at the timeline. 150x a day is not an exaggeration. All of it in direct support of Trump, or attacking DEI and anything else associated with Democrats.