Musk Makes Critical Cuts At Twitter, Says Team Was ‘Undermining Election Integrity’

Elon Musk is making some critical cuts to the X social media staff.

The tech billionaire reduced the election ‘misinformation’ team by more than half and cited ‘undermining election integrity’ as the reason the team has been reduced, Musk told X News Daily in this post:

Oh you mean the “Election Integrity” Team that was undermining election integrity? Yeah, they’re gone.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 27, 2023

I found it extremely telling that Adam Schiff had to insert himself in the conversation with this post to Elon Musk’s X platform:

“Elon Musk just fired half of the Election Integrity Team at X. Allowing election misinformation to fester on this platform opens our democracy up to further attack and disinformation. But Elon seems fine with that.”

Elon Musk just fired half of the Election Integrity Team at X.

Allowing election misinformation to fester on this platform opens our democracy up to further attack and disinformation.

But Elon seems fine with that.

— Adam Schiff (@AdamSchiff) September 28, 2023

According to The New York Post:

X cut four election integrity staffers, including the team’s head, based in Ireland, UPI reported citing a report from The Information.

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The social media platform’s executives told the team in Dublin that “having integrity employees based in Europe wasn’t necessary,” the outlet reported, citing three people familiar with the matter.

Leftists overwhelmingly decried the move to remove election censors from the social media platform and support for the move occurred along political lines.

Elon Musk Fires Twitter Election Integrity Team After Pledging To Grow It
And .. quietly removed a feature that allowed users to report election misinformation.

— Sabrina McDaniel (@Sabrina_McDa) September 28, 2023

Of course Elon has done this… Twitter fires its "Election Integrity Team" ahead of the 2024 elections. Elon Musk seems to have no problem with misinformation and how it might adversely affect democracy. https://t.co/pIhIVDufZs

— Snigdha (@snigskitchen) September 28, 2023

The company formerly known as Twitter is scaling back efforts to tackle misinformation on the platform, having laid off roughly half of the team devoted to preserving election integrity, according to a new report from The Information. https://t.co/3gxxNfT1ay

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 27, 2023

Sky News reports:

The tool to report misinformation has been taken away – except for in the European Union – prompting concern from thinktank Reset Australia ahead of the country’s aboriginal rights referendum next month.